Hidden Figures vs The Bang Bang Club

Hidden Figures has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 6.6/10 for The Bang Bang Club). The Bang Bang Club is the shorter watch at 1h 46m compared with 2h 7m. The Bang Bang Club is the older of the two (2011 against 2016). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Hidden Figures posterHidden Figures2016 VS The Bang Bang Club posterThe Bang Bang Club2011
Hidden FiguresThe Bang Bang Club
Audience score★ 8.1/10★ 6.6/10
Year20162011
Length2h 7m1h 46m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History
Country––
DirectorTheodore MelfiSteven Silver
Main castJim Parsons, Aldis Hodge, Taraji P. Henson, Saniyya Sidney, Kevin CostnerRyan Phillippe, Taylor Kitsch, Malin Åkerman, Patrick Lyster, Frank Rautenbach

Synopsis

Hidden Figures

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.

The Bang Bang Club

In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked together to chronicle the violence and upheaval leading up to the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president. Their work is risky and dangerous, potentially fatally so, as they thrust themselves into the…

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