Near Death vs The Last Class
The Last Class has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for Near Death). The Last Class is the shorter watch at 1h 11m compared with 5h 58m. Near Death is the older of the two (1989 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Near Death
The Last Class| Near Death | The Last Class | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.0/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 1989 | 2025 |
| Length | 5h 58m | 1h 11m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Frederick Wiseman | Elliot Kirschner |
| Main cast | – | Robert Reich |
Synopsis
Near Death
A film about the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. The film is concerned with how people face death. More specifically the film presents the complex interrelationships among patients, families, doctors, nurses, hospital staff and religious advisors as they confront the personal, ethical, medical, psychological, religious and legal issues involved in making decisions about whether or not to give life-sustaining…
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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