Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour vs Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib

Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.5/10 for Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour). Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib is the shorter watch at 46m compared with 55m. Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour is the older of the two (2010 against 2016). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour posterAi Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour2010 VS Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib posterDesert Warriors: Lions of the Namib2016
Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or FavourDesert Warriors: Lions of the Namib
Audience score★ 6.5/10★ 10.0/10
Year20102016
Length55m46m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary, TV Movie
Country––
DirectorMatthew SpringfordLianne Steenkamp, Will Steenkamp
Main castAi Weiwei–

Synopsis

Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour

Arts documentary, first broadcast before Ai Weiwei's arrest by the Chinese authorities in April 2011, and his subsequent release after being detained for 11 weeks. Architect, photographer, curator and blogger, Ai Weiwei is China's most famous and politically outspoken contemporary artist. Alan Yentob explores the story of Ai Weiwei's life and art, and reveals how this most courageous and determined of artists continues to fight for artistic…

Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib

Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib follows a lioness and her daughters as the travel through Namibia's desert with their five male cubs. The cubs are raised without a pride male and are instructed by their mothers in hunting both large prey and small. When the elderly matriarch dies, her daughters must finish the job.

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