The Cave

Thank you, National Geographic for making this masterpiece. Everybody should see the suggles of this hospital and community. This is also a very powerful anti-war and anti-chemical weapon documentary. The hospital team deserve awards for their bravery. The filming makes you feel like you are in the room with them and the shots over Syria as the bombs fall are Devastating. This movie makes you also hate Assad and Russia and feel love for the people of Syria and the doctors and nurses of the cave. Every politician who is deciding their country's path in Syria should see this.

It's a great documentary with so many human messages from the start.

Its production values are very good and it's a well-made one.

Sacrificing, danger, fear, war, politics, life and death are among the few themes that you can look through this documentary with the film-maker.

There was another reason that makes watching this documentary hard for me, besides its disturbing imagery which was the fact that my corrupt government is behind all of these and is supporting Bashar al-Assad and its allies to crush Syrian people like this... It's very hard for me to even think about this!

We have so many problems in Iran with our government and they're doing these horrible activities abroad also.

Hope all we can live in a world without these dictators and these totalitarian governments someday...

While the hospital personnel at The Cave learn to differentiate by sound the different types of warplanes flying overhead and their country of origin for survival, it was the heart-wrenching sound of another stretcher rolling into the hospital while making the floor and walls shake with the weight of a human being fighting for his life that I dreaded the most during my time watching the documentary. As a viewer I was struggling between wondering how much more of the reality presented to me I could take and wanting to reach through the screen and help them. That palpable was their urgency. It is the unfiltered questions coming out of Dr. Amani's own soul during her moments of most abatement and stress like "Is God really watching?" that fall like a bomb and shake the foundations of her own reality and the morals and practices of the culture around her. The Cave is a masterclass in both documentary filmmaking and in humanity.

A raw, brutal testimony of those that were left behind. The cinematography is outstanding. The sound is chilling. A portrait of humankind at both its worst and best. Certainly one of the hardest things I've ever watched, yet doing so might be our only chance to show respect for the heroic healthcare professionals and civilians depicted. It shook me to my core.

Should be rated 12+ This is a paradigm of what war can do. What courage and persistence can achieve. Well brought out to us the ignorant mass.....Well directed and edited!