Fireflies at El Mozote vs Lumumba
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.8/10 for Lumumba). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 55m. Lumumba is the older of the two (2000 against 2025). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Fireflies at El Mozote
Lumumba| Fireflies at El Mozote | Lumumba | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.8/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2000 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 1h 55m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, History, War | Drama, History |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Ernesto Melara | Raoul Peck |
| Main cast | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk | Ériq Ebouaney, Olivier Bony, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié, Maka Kotto |
Synopsis
Fireflies at El Mozote
During the 1980s civil war in El Salvador, a rebel group of leftist guerrillas fight to expose its government's death squads via an underground radio network and hope to end their government's reign of terror with the help of an American journalist.
Lumumba
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a…
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