9/11: Escape from the Towers vs Lumière, Le Cinéma!
9/11: Escape from the Towers has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 7/10 for Lumière, Le Cinéma!). 9/11: Escape from the Towers is the shorter watch at 1h 26m compared with 1h 44m. 9/11: Escape from the Towers is the older of the two (2018 against 2024). Both are documentary, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
9/11: Escape from the Towers
Lumière, Le Cinéma!| 9/11: Escape from the Towers | Lumière, Le Cinéma! | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.8/10 | ★ 7.0/10 |
| Year | 2018 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 26m | 1h 44m |
| Genres | Documentary, History | Documentary, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | – | Thierry Frémaux |
| Main cast | – | Valerio Mastandrea, Francis Ford Coppola, Bertrand Tavernier, Thierry Frémaux, Roman Coppola |
Synopsis
9/11: Escape from the Towers
Each World Trade Center tower consisted of 110 floors. Each floor has a story. In this two-hour special, survivors from two of those floors, many speaking publicly for the first time, tell their stories. Focusing on one floor in the North Tower and one in the South, this film will provide a never-before-achieved intimacy with what it was really like to be inside the Twin Towers on 9/11.
Lumière, Le Cinéma!
In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, lumière, the French word for “light,” was also the last name of brothers Auguste and Louis, whose brilliant invention, the cinematograph, helped to inaugurate the most beloved art form of the last 130 years. Institute Lumière director Thierry Frémaux uses Lumière, Le Cinema! to guide the viewer through over a hundred shorts—some famous, some forgotten, some never before seen—directed by Lumière…
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