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Bring Your Own Brigade

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Bring Your Own Brigade (2021)
Lucy Walker's documentary captures the horror and heroism of the deadliest week of wildfires in California history and explores the causes and solutions of a global crisis that is quite literally burning our world to the ground.
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An investigation into our landscape's hidden fire stories and on-the-ground experiences of firefighters and residents struggling through deadly fires.An investigation into our landscape's hidden fire stories and on-the-ground experiences of firefighters and residents struggling through deadly fires.An investigation into our landscape's hidden fire stories and on-the-ground experiences of firefighters and residents struggling through deadly fires.

IMDb RATING
7.3/10
267
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  • Director
    • Lucy Walker
  • Writers
    • Katherine Montgomery(consultant)
    • Lucy Walker
  • Stars
    • Trina Cunningham
    • Mike Davis
    • Don Hankins
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  • Director
    • Lucy Walker
  • Writers
    • Katherine Montgomery(consultant)
    • Lucy Walker
  • Stars
    • Trina Cunningham
    • Mike Davis
    • Don Hankins
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    • 3User reviews
    • 19Critic reviews
    • 81Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Trailer 2:29
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    Lucy Walker in Three Films

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    Trina Cunningham
    • Selfas Self
    Mike Davis
    • Selfas Self
    Don Hankins
    • Selfas Self
    Chad Hanson
    • Selfas Self
    Pico Iyer
    • Selfas Self
    Zeke Lunder
    • Selfas Self
    Char Miller
    • Selfas Self
    Sean Norman
    Sean Norman
    • Selfas Self
    Stephen Pyne
    • Selfas Self
    Jefferson Zuma Jay Wagner
    • Selfas Self
    • (as Jefferson Wagner)
    Marily Woodhouse
    Marily Woodhouse
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    • Director
      • Lucy Walker
    • Writers
      • Katherine Montgomery(consultant)
      • Lucy Walker
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    An investigation into our landscape's hidden fire stories and on-the-ground experiences of firefighters and residents struggling through deadly fires.
    • flame
    • combustion
    • firefighting
    • smoke
    • dirty face
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      • Documentary
    • Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
      • Rated R for language
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      Zeke Lunder: I understand the need for housing, but to suspend all planning just so we can build stuff faster? That's fucking crazy! That's insane! Who thinks that's a good idea?

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    7/10
    its like a prescribed fire...
    Its got a lot of heart and a lot of filosophy especially in the last third of it, the first half is just a thunderroar of action between the paradise fire and malibu fires of 2018 that devastated whole communities, and took the management and urban planners with their pantyhoses pretty far down, and made an abrubt wake up scream for the political foras and governmental hallways farther east. What they have done after that is pure impertinentic overswellin svada about heroism and making major forest industry even richer due to ''fell them all'' policy, instead of clear the brush and slash and heavy litter by low intensity methods, done by a workforce that must be a tenfold of todays numbers of employees. Ive observed that some of the lowpaid ones are due to get a larger paycheck this season, and even more if staying put till the end of the years last fire and that is a start, but will they do more than that ? Make forestry management a profitable alternative for green lovers and buy a couple millions of goats and wildsheep then a vast part of the brush problem wouldve been solved. Pay the heardsmen for the job, and youll have even more people employed and out of social security payrolls., and youll have milions of pounds and gallons of meat and milk on top of that too... well that was a large digression made by a grumpy old man.

    Its a lovely and beautiful production, well edited and narrated, the filming at times awesome, and its all done by an immigrant with a different view of the topic. So you will not loose 2 hours of yourlife if watching this documentary, but not so extremely much wiser you wont get.

    Its a should see movie by the douptful crowd, and a must see for all schoolchildren of the united states that may turn the direction on the compass towards a sound and healthy natural environment management in the future, so come on baby light my fire, cause fire is your friend if used in a friendly way.
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    • Release date
      • August 20, 2021 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Production companies
      • Artemis Rising Foundation
      • Rooftop Films
      • Topic Studios
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $13,375
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $8,334
      • Aug 8, 2021
    • Gross worldwide
      • $13,375
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 59 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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