Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib vs The Hockey Player
Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for The Hockey Player). Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib is the shorter watch at 46m compared with 1h 20m. Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib is the older of the two (2016 against 2026). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib
The Hockey Player| Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib | The Hockey Player | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.0/10 |
| Year | 2016 | 2026 |
| Length | 46m | 1h 20m |
| Genres | Documentary, TV Movie | Documentary |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Lianne Steenkamp, Will Steenkamp | Jacqueline Doorey |
| Main cast | – | Luke Prokop, Jacob Tierney, Mark Borowiecki, Gary Bettman, Brock McGillis |
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.
The Hockey Player
A documentary that follows Canadian-born defenseman Luke Prokop as he decides to become the first — and still only — professional athlete playing under contract to an NHL team to come out as gay. Growing up in Edmonton steeped in Canada’s tough, often homophobic hockey culture, and playing without gay role models throughout professional sports, Luke’s path to coming out of the closet has been neither easy nor obvious. The film charts Prokop’s…
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