Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones vs The Last Class

The Last Class has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6/10 for Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones). The Last Class is the shorter watch at 1h 11m compared with 1h 55m. Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones is the older of the two (1990 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones posterListen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones1990 VS The Last Class posterThe Last Class2025
Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy JonesThe Last Class
Audience score★ 6.0/10★ 10.0/10
Year19902025
Length1h 55m1h 11m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country––
DirectorEllen WeissbrodElliot Kirschner
Main castQuincy Jones, Michael Jackson, Big Daddy Kane, Clarence Avant, Ray CharlesRobert Reich

Synopsis

Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones

The extraordinary life of Quincy Jones -- one of the 20th century's most influential and talented composers, musicians and music producers -- provides the basis of this offbeat, free-form documentary tribute. With little regard for formal timelines and traditional documentary biography methods, the film is an amazing patchwork of personal insights featuring a constellation of music stars including his long-time friend Ray Charles, Miles Davis…

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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