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Fire in Babylon

  • 20102010
  • TV-14TV-14
  • 1h 27m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
1.9K
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Fire in Babylon (2010)
Feature documentary about the great West Indies cricket team of the 1970's/80's.
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A documentary on the West Indies cricket team's rise to being the best in the world, and one of the greatest cricket teams the world has ever seen, in the late-1970s and how they maintained ... Read allA documentary on the West Indies cricket team's rise to being the best in the world, and one of the greatest cricket teams the world has ever seen, in the late-1970s and how they maintained that invincibility in the 1980s.A documentary on the West Indies cricket team's rise to being the best in the world, and one of the greatest cricket teams the world has ever seen, in the late-1970s and how they maintained that invincibility in the 1980s.
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
1.9K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Stevan Riley
  • Writer
    • Stevan Riley
  • Stars
    • Viv Richards
    • Michael Holding
    • Clive Lloyd
  • Director
    • Stevan Riley
  • Writer
    • Stevan Riley
  • Stars
    • Viv Richards
    • Michael Holding
    • Clive Lloyd
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 26User reviews
    • 22Critic reviews
    • 69Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 nominations

    Videos1

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    Trailer 1:32
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    Photos12

    Fire in Babylon (2010)
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    Michael Holding, Viv Richards, and West Indies National Cricket Team in Fire in Babylon (2010)
    Clive Lloyd, Michael Holding, and Viv Richards in Fire in Babylon (2010)
    Joel Garner in Fire in Babylon (2010)
    Curtly Ambrose in Fire in Babylon (2010)
    Viv Richards in Fire in Babylon (2010)
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    Viv Richards
    Viv Richards
    • Self
    Michael Holding
    Michael Holding
    • Self
    Clive Lloyd
    Clive Lloyd
    • Self
    Gordon Greenidge
    • Self
    Deryck Murray
    • Self
    Andy Roberts
    • Self
    Colin Croft
    • Self
    Joel Garner
    Joel Garner
    • Self
    Richie Benaud
    Richie Benaud
    • Self - Commentator
    • (archive footage)
    • (voice)
    Ian Botham
    Ian Botham
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Geoffrey Boycott
    Geoffrey Boycott
    • Self - Commentator
    • (archive footage)
    • (voice)
    Brian Close
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Jeffery Dujon
    • Self
    David Frost
    David Frost
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Sunil Gavaskar
    Sunil Gavaskar
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Lance Gibbs
    • Self
    David Gower
    David Gower
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Tony Greig
    Tony Greig
    • Self
    • Director
      • Stevan Riley
    • Writer
      • Stevan Riley
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    • Trivia
      The bowler featured at the very beginning is Jason Holder, all-rounder and appointed captain of the West Indian ODI side in late 2014.
    • Quotes

      Tony Greig: I Intend to make them grovel

    • Soundtracks
      Get up, Stand up
      Written by Bob Marley and Peter Tosh

      Performed by Bob Marley & The Wailers

    User reviews26

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    8/10
    Calypso Kings to World Champions
    First off a warning! "Fire in Babylon" is for TEST MATCH CRICKET connoisseurs. If T20, IPL, ODI is your ball game then you are better off staying away from this documentary.

    Having said that "FIB" is not just about cricket; even if you have just a passing interest in the game you can still enjoy it as the film is about issues as eclectic as the rise of Black power in sports, Racism,Rastafarian culture, the unification of Caribbean islands which appear as just drops in an mass of water on the world map as West Indies, commercialization of sports and leadership.

    For me and for a lot of other viewers it could just be once in a life time opportunity to watch your childhood cricket heroes come alive on celluloid screen. Or just to experience the phenomenon of what it was like for a team to dominate a sport/any sport for 15 years like no other team did before or after.

    The film chronicles the transformation of West Indian Cricket team from a bunch of calypso style cricketers (entertaining and talented losers) to world beaters and how once West Indians started dominating the sport it gave the self belief to other black people that they were second to none irrespective of what sport they were playing What Tommie Smith started with Black Power Salute at the podium of 1968 Olympic games in Mexico City reached its pinnacle with the release of Nelson Mandela from South African prison. The film touches upon these and other history altering moments such as use of 4 pronged genuine pace attack as a weapon of annihilation on cricket pitch, Bob Marley's influence on Viv Richards' batting, Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket and how it changed the very soul of the game. Cricket, here, is simply the centerpiece of a much broader emancipation process.

    Best part of the movie is that even though West Indies were 2 time world champs in One day cricket, the movie makes no reference to it.

    Maybe 87 minutes is too short a runtime, however I would have liked to see a bit more of Malcolm Marshall. In my opinion, he was no less (if not better) than Michael Holding and Andy Roberts. Its hard to imagine a line up of Caribbean greats without Marshall spearheading the pace attack.

    Catches win matches and the world beating West Indians too were an outsanding fielding unit comprising of live wires Clive Lloyd,Viv Richards and Gus Logie. There is absolutely no mention of this aspect.

    I have watched umpteen Bollywood movies (with the exception of "Lagaan") based on cricket which made me hate the game but finally here is a movie that made me fall in love with cricket all over again.
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    • Release date
      • July 22, 2011 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Storyville: Fire in Babylon
    • Filming locations
      • Bridgetown, Barbados
    • Production companies
      • Cowboy Films
      • E & G Productions
      • ECN Motion Pictures
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $385,451
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 27 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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