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CHECKPOINT ZOO Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Checkpoint Zoo documents a daring rescue led by a heroic team of zookeepers and volunteers, who risked their lives to save thousands of animals trapped in a zoo behind enemy lines during the initial days of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.

Drawing from first-hand footage, Award-winning filmmaker Joshua Zeman's Checkpoint Zoo showcases a story of human compassion, bravery, and sacrifice during Ukraine's darkest hours -- shining a light on the best of humanity when it is all too easy to focus on the worst.
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00:00Russia has invaded Ukraine
00:29by land, air, and sea.
00:47The ferocious assault on Kharkiv,
00:50Ukraine's second city, continues.
00:53Here are just animals.
00:56This is rehabilitation of animals.
00:58This is the place where they came.
01:01What are we doing?
01:02What are the animals here?
01:05We couldn't leave our animals
01:08in such terrible situations.
01:15And so we began the evacuation.
01:18And we began the evacuation.
01:20Let's go.
01:30Go, go, go.
01:33Go, go.
01:34Go, go.
01:34Go, go.
01:35Alexander says, let's bring the animals to me.
01:42I proposed, but I even thought that I would not know what will happen.
01:50My wife was in Chornavac.
01:52It was the first thing I thought, that she did not see it.
02:00Birds, turtles, monkeys.
02:06There were no centimeters, no glass, no house.
02:12How will the new Chornavac?
02:14No one's art?
02:16Yes, no one's art.
02:26We fight for each other.
02:35They are heroes.
02:36They are heroes.
02:37They are heroes every day.
02:42They are heroes every day.
02:46They are heroes.
02:47It's the first time to die.
02:56Today is a casual Lurie Go Kevin.
02:59They were heroes.