Fireflies at El Mozote vs The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.4/10 for The Wind That Shakes the Barley). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 2h 7m. The Wind That Shakes the Barley is the older of the two (2006 against 2025). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Fireflies at El Mozote
The Wind That Shakes the Barley| Fireflies at El Mozote | The Wind That Shakes the Barley | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.4/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2006 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 2h 7m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, History, War | Drama, War |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Ernesto Melara | Ken Loach |
| Main cast | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk | Liam Cunningham, Cillian Murphy, Aidan O'Hare, Pádraic Delaney, Orla Fitzgerald |
Synopsis
Fireflies at El Mozote
During the 1980s civil war in El Salvador, a rebel group of leftist guerrillas fight to expose its government's death squads via an underground radio network and hope to end their government's reign of terror with the help of an American journalist.
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
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