Bear Island vs Everest Dark

Everest Dark has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.9/10 for Bear Island). Bear Island is the shorter watch at 1h 25m compared with 1h 30m. Bear Island is the older of the two (2014 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Bear IslandEverest Dark
Audience score★ 5.9/10★ 10.0/10
Year20142025
Length1h 25m1h 30m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country–Canada
DirectorEdda Trandum Grjotheim, Inge WeggeJereme Watt
Main cast–Jaswant Dev Shrestha, Pem Futi Sherpa, Nim Tsiri Sherpa, Nima Temba Sherpa, Mingma Tsiri Sherpa

Synopsis

Bear Island

Three brothers wish to surf waves no one has surfed before them. The answer is to go to Bjørnøya, the island next to the better known Spitsbergen. For two months they live on the island, self sufficient in food and equipment.

Everest Dark

Tourists line up at the foot of Mount Everest to climb the mythological mountain – and to tell everyone else about the feat. For the same reason, Mount Everest has become a graveyard full of the frozen corpses of fallen mountaineers. But the story of the world’s highest mountain also has another, overlooked side: the local one. For around the huge mountain between Nepal and Tibet lives a local population with their own worldview, which is very…

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