Hacksaw Ridge vs Lumumba
Hacksaw Ridge has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 6.8/10 for Lumumba). Lumumba is the shorter watch at 1h 55m compared with 2h 19m. Lumumba is the older of the two (2000 against 2016). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Hacksaw Ridge
Lumumba| Hacksaw Ridge | Lumumba | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.2/10 | ★ 6.8/10 |
| Year | 2016 | 2000 |
| Length | 2h 19m | 1h 55m |
| Genres | Drama, History, War | Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Mel Gibson | Raoul Peck |
| Main cast | Teresa Palmer, Vince Vaughn, Richard Roxburgh, Firass Dirani, Hugo Weaving | Ériq Ebouaney, Olivier Bony, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié, Maka Kotto |
Synopsis
Hacksaw Ridge
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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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