National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies vs Small Things Like These

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies has the higher audience score (9/10 against 6.7/10 for Small Things Like These). Small Things Like These is the shorter watch at 1h 39m compared with 2h 15m. National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies is the older of the two (2023 against 2024). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies posterNational Theatre Live: Best of Enemies2023 VS Small Things Like These posterSmall Things Like These2024
National Theatre Live: Best of EnemiesSmall Things Like These
Audience score★ 9.0/10★ 6.7/10
Year20232024
Length2h 15m1h 39m
GenresComedy, Drama, HistoryDrama, History
CountryUnited Kingdom–
DirectorJeremy HerrinTim Mielants
Main castSam Otto, David Harewood, Zachary Quinto, Clare Foster, Syrus LoweCillian Murphy, Emily Watson, Michelle Fairley, Eileen Walsh, Zara Devlin

Synopsis

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.

Small Things Like These

In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.

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