Sunday, April 23, 2017

Fires of Kuwait (1992)



Academy Awards, USA 1993

Nominated
Oscar
Best Documentary, Features
Sally Dundas

IMAX
Directed by David Douglas
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Warner Bros.)

Elite firefighters from around the world extinguish hundreds of burning oil wells in Kuwait, set by the retreating Iraqi military. The massive pillars of fire and their never ending plumes of black smoke blot out the sun of the desert landscape. The images are spectacular, the story, mostly consisting of "big machines", not so much.

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