Dahomey vs The Last Class
The Last Class has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.6/10 for Dahomey). Dahomey is the shorter watch at 1h 8m compared with 1h 11m. Dahomey is the older of the two (2024 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dahomey
The Last Class| Dahomey | The Last Class | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.6/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2024 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 8m | 1h 11m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Mati Diop | Elliot Kirschner |
| Main cast | Lucrèce Hougbelo, Parfait Vaiayinon, Didier Sedoha Nassangade, Sabine Badjogoumin, Dowoti Desir | Robert Reich |
Synopsis
Dahomey
Thousands of royal artifacts of Dahomey, a West African kingdom, were taken by French colonists in the 19th century for collection and display in Paris. Centuries later, a fraction returned to their home in modern-day Benin. This dramatized documentary follows the journey of 26 of the treasures as told by cultural art historians, embattled university students, and one of the repatriated statues himself.
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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