A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity vs The Last Class

The Last Class has the higher audience score (10/10 against 8/10 for A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity). The Last Class is the shorter watch at 1h 11m compared with 1h 19m. A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity is the older of the two (2016 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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A Simpler Way: Crisis as OpportunityThe Last Class
Audience score★ 8.0/10★ 10.0/10
Year20162025
Length1h 19m1h 11m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
CountryAustralia–
DirectorJordan Osmond, Samuel AlexanderElliot Kirschner
Main castDavid Holmgren, Helena Norberg-Hodge, David SprattRobert Reich

Synopsis

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity

A feature-length documentary that follows a community in Australia who came together to explore and demonstrate a simpler way to live in response to global crises.

The Last Class

American political economist, professor, author, and social media sensation Robert Reich teaches his final "Wealth and Poverty" class to 1,000 students at UC Berkeley, ending a 40-year career that reached 40,000 students. One thousand fill the biggest lecture hall on the UC Berkeley campus, the last class to receive Reich's wisdom and exhortations not to accept that the world has to stay the way it is. His belief in the next generation's…

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