Escape from Pretoria vs Thirteen Days
Escape from Pretoria has the higher audience score (7.2/10 against 7/10 for Thirteen Days). Escape from Pretoria is the shorter watch at 1h 42m compared with 2h 25m. Thirteen Days is the older of the two (2000 against 2020). Both are history, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Escape from Pretoria
Thirteen Days| Escape from Pretoria | Thirteen Days | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.2/10 | ★ 7.0/10 |
| Year | 2020 | 2000 |
| Length | 1h 42m | 2h 25m |
| Genres | Drama, History, Thriller | History, Thriller |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Francis Annan | Roger Donaldson |
| Main cast | Ian Hart, Daniel Radcliffe, Grant Piro, Daniel Webber, Mark Leonard Winter | Len Cariou, Bruce Greenwood, Kevin Costner, Steven Culp, Dylan Baker |
Synopsis
Escape from Pretoria
South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.
Thirteen Days
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases established on the Soviet-allied island of Cuba.
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