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A Thousand Fires

7.720211h 30mMovieDocumentary

Using their bare hands, married couple Htwe Tin and Thein Shwe draw oil from a pit they drilled themselves on the land next to their house. There are lots of these “artisanal” oilfields dotted around Myanmar, where people have swapped crop…

DirectorSaeed Taji Farouky
WriterSaeed Taji Farouky
ProducerEstelle Robin-You

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A Thousand Fires is streaming on DocAlliance Films in United States. It's not currently on Netflix.

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