The Dawn Wall vs Touching the Void
The Dawn Wall has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 7.6/10 for Touching the Void). The Dawn Wall is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 1h 46m. Touching the Void is the older of the two (2003 against 2017). Both are adventure, documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
The Dawn Wall
Touching the Void| The Dawn Wall | Touching the Void | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.1/10 | ★ 7.6/10 |
| Year | 2017 | 2003 |
| Length | 1h 41m | 1h 46m |
| Genres | Adventure, Documentary | Action, Adventure, Documentary, Drama |
| Country | Austria | United Kingdom |
| Director | Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer | Kevin Macdonald |
| Main cast | Tommy Caldwell, John Branch, Kevin Jorgeson, Beth Rodden, Becca Pietsch | Nicholas Aaron, Brendan Mackey, Ollie Ryall, Joe Simpson, Richard Hawking |
Synopsis
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…
Touching the Void
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
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