Chasing Red vs The Great Chess Movie

Chasing Red has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.5/10 for The Great Chess Movie). Chasing Red is the shorter watch at 57m compared with 1h 19m. The Great Chess Movie is the older of the two (1982 against 2015). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Chasing Red posterChasing Red2015 VS The Great Chess Movie posterThe Great Chess Movie1982
Chasing RedThe Great Chess Movie
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.5/10
Year20151982
Length57m1h 19m
GenresAction, Adventure, Documentary, HistoryDocumentary
CountryUS–
DirectorDennis ClanceyCamille Coudari, Gilles Carle
Main castDennis Clancey, Bill Hillmann, David UbedaPascal Rollin, Anatoli Karpov, Viktor Kortchnoi, Fernando Arrabal, Boris Spassky

Synopsis

Chasing Red

Everyone has heard of Pamplona's Running of the Bulls, yet so few know much about it. Even fewer know that there is an elite group of runners who brave dozens of bull runs each year, risking their life to run inches away from the sharp horns of the 1000+ pound ferocious animals they revere. Chasing Red is a character-driven documentary following 4 runners across the eight bull runs of a single fiesta in Pamplona. Braving through injury and…

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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