Africa on the Seine vs The Last Class
The Last Class has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.4/10 for Africa on the Seine). Africa on the Seine is the shorter watch at 22m compared with 1h 11m. Africa on the Seine is the older of the two (1955 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Africa on the Seine
The Last Class| Africa on the Seine | The Last Class | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.4/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 1955 | 2025 |
| Length | 22m | 1h 11m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Mamadou Sarr, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra | Elliot Kirschner |
| Main cast | Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, Mamadou Sarr, Marpessa Dawn, Annette M'Baye | Robert Reich |
Synopsis
Africa on the Seine
This film is widely regarded as the first film made by an African south of the Sahara. Labelled an “ethnological documentary in reverse,” it shows 1950s Paris from the cinematic perspective of a group of African immigrants. (Mubi)
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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