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• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: CreateSpace
• DVD Release Date: September 24, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000WCTZP2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #302,682 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most interesting documentary on the 33 war and the Lebanese religious sects division society, February 20, 2009

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Eleftheria Kama "EleftheriaKama" (Greece France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No One Ever Wins (DVD)

The director takes the 33 days war as a pretext and talks about the so much divided Lebanese society, reaching the edge of civil war more than frequently...

The scenes come into continuous contradiction: from the vivid Beirut night life to the rubbles left by the Israelis' strong bombardments and the mines deactivation (spread by the Israeli army) efforts in the South Lebanon fields, giving you the sense of the division this country is living into.

The initial part of the documentary is dedicated on the consequences this war has brought into the country, clear in everyone's sayings: from the young married couple who disagree with Hizballah politics -showing that not all Lebanese were for the Shia Group, however they all paid the price for this war - and the North Beirut Christian suburbs - who remained untouched by the bombing but whose tourist clientele disappeared following the war-; to both Christians and Muslims whose houses in the South were destroyed.

However, chaos divining the Lebanese becomes clear following the short interviews given by Lebanese people, representing with their sayings their religious sect opinion within the society: from the strong disagreement of the Christian militia old man who accuses Hizballah of initiating a war with Israel without asking anyone else, to the young Shia woman who talks about the "Israeli animals" who killed innocent people and depicts Hizballah as war heroes.

The words of the young man that the necessary thing for peace in Lebanon is "not to talk about religion" says it all and makes this documentary the most interesting one on the 33 day war and the Lebanese society schisms by far...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars the side you never see, January 13, 2008

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Tak Hallus (North Haledon, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: No One Ever Wins (DVD)

I purchased this documentary primarily to learn more about the cluster bombing of Lebanon that I'd heard was devastating to the civilians living there. That segment was fascinating. They pick up the bombs by hand, the method is so low tech, it's very frightening. The rest of the story is also very good, you really see what's happened on the ground to everyday innocent people in the cities and out in the sticks. One part, where a father comes up and in front of the camera and "teaches" her small daughter that Isreal destroyed all her toys, cuts right to the core of what keeps the Middle East the violent and intractable place it's been for so long. Highly recommended.