Affliction vs The Last Class

The Last Class has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.1/10 for Affliction). Affliction is the shorter watch at 45m compared with 1h 11m. Affliction is the older of the two (1996 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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AfflictionThe Last Class
Audience score★ 5.1/10★ 10.0/10
Year19962025
Length45m1h 11m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country––
DirectorMark HejnarElliot Kirschner
Main castAnnie Sprinkle, GG Allin, Full Force Frank, Mike Diana, Kembra PfahlerRobert Reich

Synopsis

Affliction

This 45 minute documentary by Mark Hejnar is a sort of Whitman's Sampler of sickness, chronicling such wildly diverse and extreme personalities as G.G. Allin, Mike Diana, Full Force Frank, GLOD, Annie Sprinkle, and others. This collection of short clips and vile moments is certainly NOT for the squeamish, as these are the artists and performers who have taken the term "free expression" to it's limits--and beyond.

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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