Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers vs The Last Class

The Last Class has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.5/10 for Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers). Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers is the shorter watch at 51m compared with 1h 11m. Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers is the older of the two (1980 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Garlic Is as Good as Ten MothersThe Last Class
Audience score★ 7.5/10★ 10.0/10
Year19802025
Length51m1h 11m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country––
DirectorLes BlankElliot Kirschner
Main castMichael Goodwin, Werner Herzog, Alice Waters, Harrod Blank, Christopher PrayRobert Reich

Synopsis

Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

A zesty paean of praise to the greater glories of garlic. This lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, cultivation and culinary/curative powers of the stinking rose features chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, and a flavorful musical soundtrack. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.

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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