How to watch 20 Days in Mariupol – is it streaming?

A hard-hitting watch nominated for the Best Documentary Oscar, here’s how to watch 20 Days in Mariupol and whether it’s available on streaming.

Amidst the masterful dramatic fiction during awards season, there’s the odd hard-hitting watch inserting itself into the documentary category – just like 20 Days in Mariupol.

Shot over 20 days in 2022, the movie follows the Russian invasion and a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol. They struggle to continue their work documenting the war’s atrocities.

With the film now up for Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards, here’s everything you need to know about 20 Days in Mariupol, including if it’s streaming.

Is 20 Days in Mariupol streaming?

No, 20 Days in Mariupol isn’t currently available on any streaming platform.

However, it is available to buy and/or rent digitally on multiple platforms, such as Amazon Prime Video, Google Play, and YouTube.

The film was released in select theaters in the US on July 14, 2023, with wider public release beginning on August 31.

You can catch up with the documentary’s full trailer below:

Is 20 Days in Mariupol on Netflix?

No, 20 Days in Mariupol isn’t streaming on Netflix.

We’ll be sure to keep this page updated should that change.

Is 20 Days in Mariupol worth watching?

Over on Rotten Tomatoes, 20 Days in Mariupol has a certified fresh rating of 1005, with an audience score of 97%.

Phillip De Semlyen at Time Out reported: “Ukrainian reporter Mstyslav Chernov has stitched together an almost overwhelming document of a city, and its people, dying over three brutal weeks.”

Danny Leigh at the Financial Times added: “If the film was “only” a historical record of bravery, carried out in deep personal peril, it would still be valuable. And yet Chernov is determined to tell the whole truth of Mariupol, however bleak, surreal, and all-too-human.”

Kevin Maher at the Times agreed: “Documentary film-making rarely gets more impactful and devastating than this personalized account of life inside the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol at the start of last year’s Russian invasion.”

Gustavo Herrera Taboada at Cinencuentro also mused: “The dramatic soundtrack is probably the only dissonant and unnecessary component in an extremely brave and essential documentary that is dedicated to portraying the horror of a specific city and its population.”