Japan's Tsunami: How It Happened vs Top Gear: The Best of the Specials

Top Gear: The Best of the Specials has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6/10 for Japan's Tsunami: How It Happened). Japan's Tsunami: How It Happened is the shorter watch at 47m compared with 2h 33m. Japan's Tsunami: How It Happened is the older of the two (2011 against 2017). Both are documentary, tv movie movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Japan's Tsunami: How It Happened posterJapan's Tsunami: How It Happened2011 VS Top Gear: The Best of the Specials posterTop Gear: The Best of the Specials2017
Japan's Tsunami: How It HappenedTop Gear: The Best of the Specials
Audience score★ 6.0/10★ 8.8/10
Year20112017
Length47m2h 33m
GenresDocumentary, TV MovieAction, Adventure, Documentary, TV Movie
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorCallum Macrae, Simon Ludgate–
Main castMark Strong, Roger Bilham, Simon Boxall, Gerard Fryer, Chris GoldfingerJeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May

Synopsis

Japan's Tsunami: How It Happened

An investigation by Professor of Geological Sciences, Roger Bilham, of the science behind the earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011.

Top Gear: The Best of the Specials

Welcome to Top Gear, The Best of the Specials. All the wildest, funniest, exciting-est bits from all the legendary Top Gear Specials, combined into one brilliant DVD. For over a decade, Top Gear’s road trips – and off-road trips – have tackled the biggest questions in motoring. Can cards set us free? Can they bring cultures together? And is it really a good idea to wear denim in tropical climates? So if you enjoy watching middle-aged men…

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