9/11: Escape from the Towers vs The Tattooist's Son: Journey to Auschwitz

The Tattooist's Son: Journey to Auschwitz has the higher audience score (8/10 against 7.8/10 for 9/11: Escape from the Towers). The Tattooist's Son: Journey to Auschwitz is the shorter watch at 1h 10m compared with 1h 26m. 9/11: Escape from the Towers is the older of the two (2018 against 2025). Both are documentary, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

9/11: Escape from the Towers poster9/11: Escape from the Towers2018 VS The Tattooist's Son: Journey to Auschwitz posterThe Tattooist's Son: Journey to Auschwitz2025
9/11: Escape from the TowersThe Tattooist's Son: Journey to Auschwitz
Audience score★ 7.8/10★ 8.0/10
Year20182025
Length1h 26m1h 10m
GenresDocumentary, HistoryDocumentary, History
Country–United Kingdom
Director–Stephen Bennett
Main cast–Jonah Hauer-King, Heather Morris, Anna Próchniak, Gary Sokolov, George Halasz

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.

The Tattooist's Son: Journey to Auschwitz

Filmed in Melbourne, Slovakia, and Poland, this poignant and intimate one-off documentary will follow Gary Sokolov, the only son of Gita and Lali Sokolov (one of the real-life tattooists of Auschwitz). Their incredible love story began when they met and fell in love as Slovakian Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz Concentration Camp, where the Nazi regime systematically murdered over a million Jews. The film will chart Gary’s first visit to this most…

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