Darkest Hour vs National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 7.4/10 for Darkest Hour). Darkest Hour is the shorter watch at 2h 5m compared with 2h 20m. Darkest Hour is the older of the two (2017 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Darkest Hour posterDarkest Hour2017 VS National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt posterNational Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt2022
Darkest HourNational Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
Audience score★ 7.4/10★ 8.8/10
Year20172022
Length2h 5m2h 20m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History
Country––
DirectorJoe WrightPatrick Marber
Main castBen Mendelsohn, Adrian Rawlins, Joe Armstrong, Benjamin Whitrow, David SchofieldArty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway

Synopsis

Darkest Hour

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt

At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, Austria. But Hermann Merz, a factory owner and baptised Jew now married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. We follow his family’s story across half a century, passing through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. A company of 40 actors represent each generation of the family in…

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