5 Broken Cameras vs Bowling for Columbine

5 Broken Cameras and Bowling for Columbine are tied on audience score (7.5/10). 5 Broken Cameras is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 2h . Bowling for Columbine is the older of the two (2002 against 2011). Both are crime, documentary, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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5 Broken CamerasBowling for Columbine
Audience score★ 7.5/10★ 7.5/10
Year20112002
Length1h 30m2h
GenresCrime, Documentary, Drama, WarCrime, Documentary, Drama
CountryFrance–
DirectorEmad Burnat, Guy DavidiMichael Moore
Main castEmad Burnat, Soraya Burnat, Gibreel Burnat, Mohammed Burnat, Yasin BurnatMichael Moore, Charlton Heston, Dick Clark, George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush

Synopsis

5 Broken Cameras

Five broken cameras – and each one has a powerful tale to tell. Embedded in the bullet-ridden remains of digital technology is the story of Emad Burnat, a farmer from the Palestinian village of Bil’in, which famously chose nonviolent resistance when the Israeli army encroached upon its land to make room for Jewish colonists. Emad buys his first camera in 2005 to document the birth of his fourth son, Gibreel. Over the course of the film, he…

Bowling for Columbine

This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. From a look at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with The Anarchist's Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another…

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