Near Death vs Tomorrow is Saturday

Tomorrow is Saturday has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for Near Death). Tomorrow is Saturday is the shorter watch at 1h 8m compared with 5h 58m. Near Death is the older of the two (1989 against 2020). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Near Death posterNear Death1989 VS Tomorrow is Saturday posterTomorrow is Saturday2020
Near DeathTomorrow is Saturday
Audience score★ 7.0/10★ 10.0/10
Year19892020
Length5h 58m1h 8m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country––
DirectorFrederick WisemanGillian Marsh, Gretta Ohle
Main cast–Sean Hillen

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…

Tomorrow is Saturday

With a 50-year career north and south of the border, Newry-born artist Seán Hillen wears many hats; collagist, photomontage artist, inventor, polymath, conspiracy theorist, documentary photographer and sculptor. He has exhibited widely in museums and art galleries. But despite all this, Seán Hillen is the most heavily censored artist to come out of Britain or Ireland. Tomorrow is Saturday is a revealing documentary exploring the historical and…

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