Backlash: The Murder of George Floyd vs The Great Chess Movie
Backlash: The Murder of George Floyd has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.5/10 for The Great Chess Movie). The Great Chess Movie is the shorter watch at 1h 19m compared with 1h 29m. The Great Chess Movie is the older of the two (1982 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Backlash: The Murder of George Floyd
The Great Chess Movie| Backlash: The Murder of George Floyd | The Great Chess Movie | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.5/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 1982 |
| Length | 1h 29m | 1h 19m |
| Genres | Crime, Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | United Kingdom | – |
| Director | Kwabena Oppong | Camille Coudari, Gilles Carle |
| Main cast | – | Pascal Rollin, Anatoli Karpov, Viktor Kortchnoi, Fernando Arrabal, Boris Spassky |
Synopsis
Backlash: The Murder of George Floyd
Five years since the murder of George Floyd – the police killing that set America on fire with rage and sparked a wave of protests around the world, director Kwabena Oppong's film explores one of the most important and defining events in modern history. Featuring ground-breaking interviews with members of George Floyd’s family, the Minneapolis Police Chief who took the bold step of testifying against one of his own officers, Boris Johnson’s…
The Great Chess Movie
In this Gilles Carle feature documentary on the game of chess, the international chess match is cast as a classic Western shoot-out. Three chess greats dominate the film: Russia's Anatoly Karpov; Viktor Korchnoi, a Russian defector; and American Bobby Fischer. Chess aficionados Camille Coudari and Fernando Arrabal analyze the personalities and strategies of the players and comment on the interplay of politics and chess.
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