Chernobyl: 48 Hours To Escape vs Life Itself

Chernobyl: 48 Hours To Escape has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.5/10 for Life Itself). Chernobyl: 48 Hours To Escape is the shorter watch at 1h 8m compared with 2h 1m. Life Itself is the older of the two (2014 against 2026). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Chernobyl: 48 Hours To Escape posterChernobyl: 48 Hours To Escape2026 VS Life Itself posterLife Itself2014
Chernobyl: 48 Hours To EscapeLife Itself
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.5/10
Year20262014
Length1h 8m2h 1m
GenresDocumentary, History, TV MovieDocumentary
CountryUnited Kingdom–
DirectorLuke WalesSteve James
Main castRalph InesonWerner Herzog, Stephen Stanton, Roger Ebert, Chaz Ebert, Ramin Bahrani

Synopsis

Chernobyl: 48 Hours To Escape

Witnesses, survivors and front-line heroes recall the first days of the Chernobyl disaster of April 1986. Featuring rare archive footage of the world's worst ever nuclear accident.

Life Itself

The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.

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