Defiance vs The Eight Hundred

The Eight Hundred has the higher audience score (7/10 against 6.8/10 for Defiance). Defiance is the shorter watch at 2h 17m compared with 2h 27m. Defiance is the older of the two (2008 against 2020). Both are action, drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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DefianceThe Eight Hundred
Audience score★ 6.8/10★ 7.0/10
Year20082020
Length2h 17m2h 27m
GenresAction, Drama, History, WarAction, Drama, History, War
Country–China
DirectorEdward ZwickGuan Hu
Main castMark Feuerstein, Iddo Goldberg, Liev Schreiber, Jodhi May, Tomas AranaXin Baiqing, Jerry Lee, Ou Hao, Huang Zhizhong, Liu Xiaoqing

Synopsis

Defiance

Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.

The Eight Hundred

In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.

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