National Theatre Live: The Audience vs Special Unit - The First Murder

Special Unit - The First Murder has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 8.3/10 for National Theatre Live: The Audience). Special Unit - The First Murder is the shorter watch at 2h 5m compared with 2h 22m. National Theatre Live: The Audience is the older of the two (2013 against 2025). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

National Theatre Live: The Audience posterNational Theatre Live: The Audience2013 VS Special Unit - The First Murder posterSpecial Unit - The First Murder2025
National Theatre Live: The AudienceSpecial Unit - The First Murder
Audience score★ 8.3/10★ 8.8/10
Year20132025
Length2h 22m2h 5m
GenresDrama, HistoryCrime, Drama, History
CountryUnited Kingdom–
DirectorRobin LoughChristoffer Boe
Main castPaul Ritter, Helen Mirren, Geoffrey Beevers, Edward Fox, Nell WilliamsNicolaj Kopernikus, Lars Ranthe, Clara Rugaard, Alex Høgh Andersen, Mille Lehfeldt

Synopsis

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.

Special Unit - The First Murder

Denmark in 1927. The ambitious police officer Otto Himmelstrup leads the newly formed Special Unit, which is tasked with assisting local police in solving particularly difficult crimes. When a body is found in a burnt-out summer house in Esbjerg, Otto and his team begin to unravel an unusual murder mystery, revealing power struggles and corruption among the city’s elite. The closer the unit gets to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes…

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