Experimenter vs National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies has the higher audience score (9/10 against 6.5/10 for Experimenter). Experimenter is the shorter watch at 1h 37m compared with 2h 15m. Experimenter is the older of the two (2015 against 2023). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Experimenter posterExperimenter2015 VS National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies posterNational Theatre Live: Best of Enemies2023
ExperimenterNational Theatre Live: Best of Enemies
Audience score★ 6.5/10★ 9.0/10
Year20152023
Length1h 37m2h 15m
GenresDrama, HistoryComedy, Drama, History
CountryUnited States of AmericaUnited Kingdom
DirectorMichael AlmereydaJeremy Herrin
Main castPeter Sarsgaard, Taryn Manning, Winona Ryder, Edoardo Ballerini, Dennis HaysbertSam Otto, David Harewood, Zachary Quinto, Clare Foster, Syrus Lowe

Synopsis

Experimenter

Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s…

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies

In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the unruly liberal Gore Vidal. During a new nightly television format, they debate the moral landscape of a shattered nation.

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