The Last Class vs This Is Not a Film
The Last Class has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.9/10 for This Is Not a Film). The Last Class is the shorter watch at 1h 11m compared with 1h 18m. This Is Not a Film is the older of the two (2011 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
The Last Class
This Is Not a Film| The Last Class | This Is Not a Film | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.9/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2011 |
| Length | 1h 11m | 1h 18m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Elliot Kirschner | Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb |
| Main cast | Robert Reich | Jafar Panahi, Igi, Mrs. Gheirat, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Rakhsan |
Synopsis
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…
This Is Not a Film
Renowned Iranian director Jafar Panahi received a 6-year prison sentence and a 20-year ban from filmmaking and conducting interviews with foreign press due to his open support for the opposition party in Iran's 2009 election. In this film, which was shot secretly by Panahi's close friend Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and smuggled into France on a USB stick concealed inside a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, Panahi documents his daily life…
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