Lumumba vs National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies has the higher audience score (9/10 against 6.8/10 for Lumumba). Lumumba is the shorter watch at 1h 55m compared with 2h 15m. Lumumba is the older of the two (2000 against 2023). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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LumumbaNational Theatre Live: Best of Enemies
Audience score★ 6.8/10★ 9.0/10
Year20002023
Length1h 55m2h 15m
GenresDrama, HistoryComedy, Drama, History
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorRaoul PeckJeremy Herrin
Main castÉriq Ebouaney, Olivier Bony, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié, Maka KottoSam Otto, David Harewood, Zachary Quinto, Clare Foster, Syrus Lowe

Synopsis

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…

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies

In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the unruly liberal Gore Vidal. During a new nightly television format, they debate the moral landscape of a shattered nation.

Where to watch

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