15 Minutes of War vs The Eight Hundred

The Eight Hundred has the higher audience score (7/10 against 6.8/10 for 15 Minutes of War). 15 Minutes of War is the shorter watch at 1h 38m compared with 2h 27m. 15 Minutes of War is the older of the two (2019 against 2020). Both are action, drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

15 Minutes of War poster15 Minutes of War2019 VS The Eight Hundred posterThe Eight Hundred2020
15 Minutes of WarThe Eight Hundred
Audience score★ 6.8/10★ 7.0/10
Year20192020
Length1h 38m2h 27m
GenresAction, Drama, History, WarAction, Drama, History, War
Country–China
DirectorFred GrivoisGuan Hu
Main castVincent Perez, Josiane Balasko, David Murgia, Olga Kurylenko, Michaël AbiteboulXin Baiqing, Jerry Lee, Ou Hao, Huang Zhizhong, Liu Xiaoqing

Synopsis

15 Minutes of War

February 1976. Somalian rebels hijack a school bus carrying 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City. When the terrorists drive it to a no-man’s-land on the border between Somalia and French territory, the French Government sends out a newly formed elite squad to rescue the hostages. Within a few hours, the highly trained team arrives to the crisis area, where the Somalian National Army has taken position behind the barbed wire on…

The Eight Hundred

In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.

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