Free Solo vs The Dawn Wall
The Dawn Wall has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 7.9/10 for Free Solo). Free Solo is the shorter watch at 1h 40m compared with 1h 41m. The Dawn Wall is the older of the two (2017 against 2018). Both are adventure, documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood. Both feature Tommy Caldwell.
Free Solo
The Dawn Wall| Free Solo | The Dawn Wall | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.9/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2018 | 2017 |
| Length | 1h 40m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Adventure, Documentary | Adventure, Documentary |
| Country | – | Austria |
| Director | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin | Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer |
| Main cast | Tommy Caldwell, Alex Honnold, Jimmy Chin, Sanni McCandless, Mikey Schaefer | Tommy Caldwell, John Branch, Kevin Jorgeson, Beth Rodden, Becca Pietsch |
Synopsis
Free Solo
Follow Alex Honnold as he attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's 3,000 foot high El Capitan wall. With no ropes or safety gear, this would arguably be the greatest feat in rock climbing history.
The Dawn Wall
The definitive film on the climb that captured headlines and ignited imaginations worldwide. Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson ascend the hardest big wall of all time: a 19 day ascent of The Dawn Wall, on the 3,000 foot vertical face of El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park. The film travels deeper than the climb, digging into the history of the climbers and painting an intimate portrait of Caldwell's harrowing life experiences that culminated…
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