Fighting Fear vs Touching the Void

Touching the Void has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 4.5/10 for Fighting Fear). Fighting Fear is the shorter watch at 1h 37m compared with 1h 46m. Touching the Void is the older of the two (2003 against 2011). Both are action, documentary, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Fighting Fear posterFighting Fear2011 VS Touching the Void posterTouching the Void2003
Fighting FearTouching the Void
Audience score★ 4.5/10★ 7.6/10
Year20112003
Length1h 37m1h 46m
GenresAction, Documentary, DramaAction, Adventure, Documentary, Drama
CountryAustraliaUnited Kingdom
DirectorMacario De SouzaKevin Macdonald
Main castJoel Edgerton, Kelly Slater, Mick Fanning, Mark Mathews, B.J. PennNicholas Aaron, Brendan Mackey, Ollie Ryall, Joe Simpson, Richard Hawking

Synopsis

Fighting Fear

Told through the eyes of two friends Big Wave Pro-surfer Mark Mathews and MMA fighter Richie 'Vas' Vaculik.

Touching the Void

The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.

Where to watch

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