Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib vs Motel Drive

Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib is the shorter watch at 46m compared with 1h 2m. Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib is the older of the two (2016 against 2023). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib posterDesert Warriors: Lions of the Namib2016 VS Motel Drive posterMotel Drive2023
Desert Warriors: Lions of the NamibMotel Drive
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 0.0/10
Year20162023
Length46m1h 2m
GenresDocumentary, TV MovieDocumentary
Country–United States of America
DirectorLianne Steenkamp, Will SteenkampBrendan Geraghty
Main cast––

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.

Motel Drive

Within a community of motels infamous for illicit activity, the Shaw Family grapples with housing insecurity and addiction while trying to raise their young son. When California's High-Speed Rail Project displaces them, a glimpse of stability appears within reach. A vérité, street level vantage of post-industrial America, documented over eight years, on one city block.

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