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Documentary 'Last Men In Aleppo' Profiles Rescuers Amid The Rubble

An intimate and moving examination of the White Helmets, who pull survivors — and corpses — from bombed buildings in Syria's largest city.
Two members of "The White Helmets" pause to take stock in the documentary <em>Last Men in Aleppo.</em>

"We all die here together."

That vow, heard several times in , is apparently a common response to the suggestion that life might be better in Turkey or Germany than in the rubble of what was once Syria's biggest city. The country's White Helmets, who pull survivors and corpses from bombed buildings, will stay as long as there

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