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Documentary, War, Drama, History  •  2025  •  78 min

Our War (2025)

Our War poster

Our War (2025)

Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Mixed
Judaism: Positive
Viewer Rating
8.0

Overview

Our War is a 2025 French war documentary directed by Bernard-Henri Lévy and Marc Roussel. Filmed between February and April 2025, it chronicles the experiences of civilians and soldiers on Ukraine's eastern front lines during the Russian invasion. Lévy appears as himself, joined by Gilles Hertzog and Serge Osipenko, with access to figures including President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This marks Lévy's fourth documentary on the conflict.

Starring Cast

Gilles Hertzog  •   Bernard-Henri Lévy  •   Serge Osipenko

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Progressive

Primary

Political: Leans Left
Confidence: Medium

The documentary frames the Russian invasion of Ukraine as an existential threat to global freedom, championing robust Western military aid and international intervention as essential to Ukrainian triumph. This emphasis on multilateral support against authoritarian aggression determines its left-leaning orientation.

Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: High

The documentary presents a range of Ukrainian frontline figures, encompassing women in military positions, elderly survivors, and individuals with disabilities, to illustrate collective defiance amid conflict. Traditional identities receive neutral to positive depiction without targeted critique, while inclusive portrayals of heroism appear incidentally rather than as a core focus.

Secondary

Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: High

The documentary peripherally shows the war's impact on Ukrainian civilians through scenes of elderly people in destroyed homes and children rescued from captivity, alongside personal losses like a soldier's fiancé, but does not explore family structures, roles, or values in depth. This incidental portrayal without endorsement or critique of traditional or progressive norms results in a neutral assessment.

Judaism: Positive
Confidence: Low

The film portrays a rabbi as one of the dignified Ukrainian figures enduring the war, aligning the narrative with sympathy for Jewish resilience within the nation's defense.

LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Medium

No identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes appear in the documentary, which centers on the Ukraine war's military and political dimensions.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: High

The documentary features no transgender characters or themes, focusing instead on frontline experiences in the Ukraine conflict through interviews and footage.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Medium

Our War is a documentary chronicling real events and individuals in the Ukraine conflict, without adaptations, fictional characters, or recastings that could involve gender swaps.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: Medium

Our War documents real frontline experiences in the Russia-Ukraine conflict through footage of actual civilians, soldiers, and journalists, involving no adaptations, biopics, or recast characters from prior sources.

Viewer Rating Breakdown

8.0

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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8.0

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