The Great Chess Movie vs The Last Class
The Last Class has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.5/10 for The Great Chess Movie). The Last Class is the shorter watch at 1h 11m compared with 1h 19m. The Great Chess Movie is the older of the two (1982 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
The Great Chess Movie
The Last Class| The Great Chess Movie | The Last Class | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.5/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 1982 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 19m | 1h 11m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Camille Coudari, Gilles Carle | Elliot Kirschner |
| Main cast | Pascal Rollin, Anatoli Karpov, Viktor Kortchnoi, Fernando Arrabal, Boris Spassky | Robert Reich |
Synopsis
The Great Chess Movie
In this Gilles Carle feature documentary on the game of chess, the international chess match is cast as a classic Western shoot-out. Three chess greats dominate the film: Russia's Anatoly Karpov; Viktor Korchnoi, a Russian defector; and American Bobby Fischer. Chess aficionados Camille Coudari and Fernando Arrabal analyze the personalities and strategies of the players and comment on the interplay of politics and chess.
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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