The Last Class vs Though I Am Gone
The Last Class has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.5/10 for Though I Am Gone). Though I Am Gone is the shorter watch at 1h 6m compared with 1h 11m. Though I Am Gone is the older of the two (2006 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
The Last Class
Though I Am Gone| The Last Class | Though I Am Gone | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.5/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2006 |
| Length | 1h 11m | 1h 6m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Elliot Kirschner | Hu Jie |
| Main cast | Robert Reich | Jingyao Wang |
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…
Though I Am Gone
Filmmaker Hu Jie uncovers the tragic story of a teacher beaten to death by her students during the Cultural Revoution. In 1966, the Cultural Revolution exploded throughout China, as Mao's Red Guards persecuted suspected Rightists. Bian Zhongyun, the vice principal of a prestigious school in Beijing, was beaten to death by her own students, becoming one of the first victims of the revolutionary violence that would engulf the entire nation.
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