Hitler: A Career vs Lumière, Le Cinéma!
Hitler: A Career has the higher audience score (7.4/10 against 7/10 for Lumière, Le Cinéma!). Lumière, Le Cinéma! is the shorter watch at 1h 44m compared with 2h 30m. Hitler: A Career is the older of the two (1977 against 2024). Both are documentary, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Hitler: A Career
Lumière, Le Cinéma!| Hitler: A Career | Lumière, Le Cinéma! | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.4/10 | ★ 7.0/10 |
| Year | 1977 | 2024 |
| Length | 2h 30m | 1h 44m |
| Genres | Documentary, History | Documentary, History |
| Country | Germany | – |
| Director | Christian Herrendoerfer, Joachim Fest | Thierry Frémaux |
| Main cast | Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Rudolf Hess, Charlie Chaplin | Valerio Mastandrea, Francis Ford Coppola, Bertrand Tavernier, Thierry Frémaux, Roman Coppola |
Synopsis
Hitler: A Career
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.
Lumière, Le Cinéma!
In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, lumière, the French word for “light,” was also the last name of brothers Auguste and Louis, whose brilliant invention, the cinematograph, helped to inaugurate the most beloved art form of the last 130 years. Institute Lumière director Thierry Frémaux uses Lumière, Le Cinema! to guide the viewer through over a hundred shorts—some famous, some forgotten, some never before seen—directed by Lumière…
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