The White Helmets

9/25/2026

You know that Churchillian quote about "never in the field of human conflict..."? Well I'm not so sure it couldn't be applied to these folks too. The "White Helmets" are a group of courageous volunteers who risk life and limb to try to assist those affected by the increasingly indiscriminate warfare going on in their Syrian homeland. Over the next half hour, or so, what we get is actually much more personal that I was expecting. Certainly, there is plenty of actuality of the effects of the war and there is some especially shot footage that illustrates quite clearly just how randomly this campaign of attrition against it's own people was being carried out: bombs being chucked out of helicopters as if they were wedding confetti and landing where they may, but this film is more essentially ab