Filming 'The Trial' vs The Last Class

The Last Class has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for Filming 'The Trial'). The Last Class is the shorter watch at 1h 11m compared with 1h 22m. Filming 'The Trial' is the older of the two (1981 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Filming 'The Trial' posterFilming 'The Trial'1981 VS The Last Class posterThe Last Class2025
Filming 'The Trial'The Last Class
Audience score★ 7.0/10★ 10.0/10
Year19812025
Length1h 22m1h 11m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country––
DirectorOrson WellesElliot Kirschner
Main castOrson Welles, Scott Alexander, Joseph McBride, Todd McCarthy, Myron MeiselRobert Reich

Synopsis

Filming 'The Trial'

An unfinished 1981 essay-documentary project by Orson Welles, based on a filmed Q&A session at USC following a screening of The Trial, intended as a reflective companion piece to the film but never edited or completed during his lifetime.

The Last Class

American political economist, professor, author, and social media sensation Robert Reich teaches his final "Wealth and Poverty" class to 1,000 students at UC Berkeley, ending a 40-year career that reached 40,000 students. One thousand fill the biggest lecture hall on the UC Berkeley campus, the last class to receive Reich's wisdom and exhortations not to accept that the world has to stay the way it is. His belief in the next generation's…

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