Skyscraper Live vs The Dawn Wall

The Dawn Wall has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 7.8/10 for Skyscraper Live). The Dawn Wall is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 1h 57m. The Dawn Wall is the older of the two (2017 against 2026). Both are adventure, documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Skyscraper Live posterSkyscraper Live2026 VS The Dawn Wall posterThe Dawn Wall2017
Skyscraper LiveThe Dawn Wall
Audience score★ 7.8/10★ 8.1/10
Year20262017
Length1h 57m1h 41m
GenresAdventure, DocumentaryAdventure, Documentary
Country–Austria
DirectorJoe DeMaioJosh Lowell, Peter Mortimer
Main castAlex Honnold, Sanni McCandless, Elle Duncan, Emily Harrington, Mark RoberTommy Caldwell, John Branch, Kevin Jorgeson, Beth Rodden, Becca Pietsch

Synopsis

Skyscraper Live

No ropes. No fear. Free solo legend Alex Honnold risks it all in a high-stakes, live ascent of one of the world's tallest skyscrapers in Taipei, Taiwan.

The Dawn Wall

The definitive film on the climb that captured headlines and ignited imaginations worldwide. Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson ascend the hardest big wall of all time: a 19 day ascent of The Dawn Wall, on the 3,000 foot vertical face of El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park. The film travels deeper than the climb, digging into the history of the climbers and painting an intimate portrait of Caldwell's harrowing life experiences that culminated…

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