Lumumba vs National Theatre Live: The Audience

National Theatre Live: The Audience has the higher audience score (8.3/10 against 6.8/10 for Lumumba). Lumumba is the shorter watch at 1h 55m compared with 2h 22m. Lumumba is the older of the two (2000 against 2013). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Lumumba posterLumumba2000 VS National Theatre Live: The Audience posterNational Theatre Live: The Audience2013
LumumbaNational Theatre Live: The Audience
Audience score★ 6.8/10★ 8.3/10
Year20002013
Length1h 55m2h 22m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorRaoul PeckRobin Lough
Main castÉriq Ebouaney, Olivier Bony, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié, Maka KottoPaul Ritter, Helen Mirren, Geoffrey Beevers, Edward Fox, Nell Williams

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: The Audience

For sixty years, Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace, a meeting like no other in British public life, it is private.

Where to watch

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