Experimenter vs National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6.5/10 for Experimenter). Experimenter is the shorter watch at 1h 37m compared with 2h 20m. Experimenter is the older of the two (2015 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Experimenter posterExperimenter2015 VS National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt posterNational Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt2022
ExperimenterNational Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
Audience score★ 6.5/10★ 8.8/10
Year20152022
Length1h 37m2h 20m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorMichael AlmereydaPatrick Marber
Main castPeter Sarsgaard, Taryn Manning, Winona Ryder, Edoardo Ballerini, Dennis HaysbertArty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway

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: Leopoldstadt

At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, Austria. But Hermann Merz, a factory owner and baptised Jew now married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. We follow his family’s story across half a century, passing through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. A company of 40 actors represent each generation of the family in…

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