Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib vs The Salt of the Earth

Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib has the higher audience score (10/10 against 8.1/10 for The Salt of the Earth). Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib is the shorter watch at 46m compared with 1h 50m. The Salt of the Earth is the older of the two (2014 against 2016). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib posterDesert Warriors: Lions of the Namib2016 VS The Salt of the Earth posterThe Salt of the Earth2014
Desert Warriors: Lions of the NamibThe Salt of the Earth
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 8.1/10
Year20162014
Length46m1h 50m
GenresDocumentary, TV MovieDocumentary
Country––
DirectorLianne Steenkamp, Will SteenkampJuliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders
Main cast–Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Hugo Barbier, Lélia Wanick Salgado

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 Salt of the Earth

During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of our recent history: international conflicts, starvations and exodus… He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of the wild fauna and flora, of grandiose landscapes: a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty…

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