Man on Wire vs The Last Class
The Last Class has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.4/10 for Man on Wire). The Last Class is the shorter watch at 1h 11m compared with 1h 34m. Man on Wire is the older of the two (2008 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Man on Wire
The Last Class| Man on Wire | The Last Class | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.4/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2008 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 34m | 1h 11m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | James Marsh | Elliot Kirschner |
| Main cast | Richard Nixon, Philippe Petit, Jean François Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau, Annie Allix | Robert Reich |
Synopsis
Man on Wire
On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour of performing on the wire, 1,350 feet above the sidewalks of Manhattan, he was arrested. This fun and spellbinding documentary chronicles Philippe Petit's "highest" achievement.
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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