Nelson Cavaquinho vs The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years

Nelson Cavaquinho has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 7.5/10 for The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years). Nelson Cavaquinho is the shorter watch at 15m compared with 1h 46m. Nelson Cavaquinho is the older of the two (1969 against 2016). Both are documentary, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Nelson CavaquinhoThe Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
Audience score★ 8.8/10★ 7.5/10
Year19692016
Length15m1h 46m
GenresDocumentary, MusicDocumentary, Music
CountryBrazilUnited Kingdom
DirectorLeon HirszmanRon Howard
Main castNelson CavaquinhoWhoopi Goldberg, Eddie Izzard, Sigourney Weaver, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr

Synopsis

Nelson Cavaquinho

A short film of lovely poetic, observational elements and interviews with the famed samba singer/songwriter Nelson Antônio da Silva, whose adopted last name ‘Cavaquinho’ refers to the small guitar-like instrument that he played and used to compose his songs.

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years

The Beatles stormed through Europe's music scene in 1963, and, in 1964, they conquered America. Their groundbreaking world tours changed global youth culture forever and, arguably, invented mass entertainment as we know it today. All the while, the group were composing and recording a series of extraordinarily successful singles and albums. However the relentless pressure of such unprecedented fame, that in 1966 became uncontrollable turmoil…

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