Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib vs Hopper/Welles

Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.9/10 for Hopper/Welles). Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib is the shorter watch at 46m compared with 2h 10m. Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib is the older of the two (2016 against 2020). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib posterDesert Warriors: Lions of the Namib2016 VS Hopper/Welles posterHopper/Welles2020
Desert Warriors: Lions of the NamibHopper/Welles
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 5.9/10
Year20162020
Length46m2h 10m
GenresDocumentary, TV MovieDocumentary
Country––
DirectorLianne Steenkamp, Will SteenkampOrson Welles
Main cast–Dennis Hopper, Orson Welles, Janice Pennington, Glenn Jacobson

Synopsis

Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib

Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib follows a lioness and her daughters as the travel through Namibia's desert with their five male cubs. The cubs are raised without a pride male and are instructed by their mothers in hunting both large prey and small. When the elderly matriarch dies, her daughters must finish the job.

Hopper/Welles

A restored 1970 cinéma vérité conversation between Orson Welles and Dennis Hopper, filmed during the production of "The Other Side of the Wind" and released in 2020 as a standalone documentary capturing their wide-ranging dialogue on cinema, politics, art, and fame in the early New Hollywood era.

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