Film · 2021 · Films · 2020s
Four Hours at the Capitol
Scored from 39 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Jamie Roberts reconstructs the assault on the United States Capitol on 6 January 2021, following roughly four hours from the crowd's arrival at the perimeter barricades to the building being cleared that evening. It is assembled from participants' phone video, police body-camera recordings and surveillance footage, cut against fresh interviews with Capitol and Metropolitan Police officers, rioters and militia members, congressional staff and members of Congress from both parties. The film stays close to the physical geography of the breach and to the hours in which lawmakers sheltered and reinforcements did not arrive. Made for the BBC and HBO, it is a chronological, interview-driven account rather than an analytical essay.
Four Hours at the Capitol (2021) is a film IMDb files under the crime and documentary genres. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is TV-MA. It runs 1h 26m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 6 of whom clear the calibration test. Only 39 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 40 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. 7,929 other films from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Four Hours at the Capitol lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 2020s (7,930 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 39.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
