National Theatre Live: Good vs The Children of Huang Shi

National Theatre Live: Good has the higher audience score (8.5/10 against 6.7/10 for The Children of Huang Shi). National Theatre Live: Good is the shorter watch at 1h 40m compared with 2h 5m. The Children of Huang Shi is the older of the two (2008 against 2023). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

National Theatre Live: Good posterNational Theatre Live: Good2023 VS The Children of Huang Shi posterThe Children of Huang Shi2008
National Theatre Live: GoodThe Children of Huang Shi
Audience score★ 8.5/10★ 6.7/10
Year20232008
Length1h 40m2h 5m
GenresDrama, WarDrama, War
Country––
DirectorDominic CookeRoger Spottiswoode
Main castDavid Tennant, Elliot Levey, Sharon Small, Jim Creighton, Rebecca BainbridgeJonathan Rhys Meyers, Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Radha Mitchell, David Wenham

Synopsis

National Theatre Live: Good

As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences.

The Children of Huang Shi

About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.

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