Doctor Who: The Snowmen vs On the Beach

Doctor Who: The Snowmen has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 6.2/10 for On the Beach). Doctor Who: The Snowmen is the shorter watch at 1h compared with 3h 17m. On the Beach is the older of the two (2000 against 2012). Both are drama, science fiction, tv movie movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Doctor Who: The Snowmen posterDoctor Who: The Snowmen2012 VS On the Beach posterOn the Beach2000
Doctor Who: The SnowmenOn the Beach
Audience score★ 7.7/10★ 6.2/10
Year20122000
Length1h 3h 17m
GenresAdventure, Drama, Family, Science Fiction, TV MovieDrama, Science Fiction, TV Movie
Country––
DirectorSaul MetzsteinRussell Mulcahy
Main castMatt Smith, Richard E. Grant, Jenna Coleman, Ian McKellen, Juliet CadzowArmand Assante, Catherine Sutherland, Rachel Ward, Bryan Brown, Jacqueline McKenzie

Synopsis

Doctor Who: The Snowmen

The Doctor has retired to 1892 London. Despite the protests of his allies, he is determined to keep out of mankind's affairs. However, a governess named Clara has stumbled upon a plot which only the Doctor can unravel, involving the death of her predecessor in ice and the sinister Dr. Simeon, who controls monsters made of sentient snow. And there is another mystery afoot: Clara is the spitting image of Oswin Oswald, whom the Doctor saw die in…

On the Beach

The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floating in on the breezes. One American sub located in the Pacific has survived and is met with disdain by the Australians. The calculations of Australia's most renowned scientist says the country is doomed. However, one of his rivals says that he is wrong. He believes that a 1000 people can be…

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