Call Us Ishmael vs Everest Dark
Call Us Ishmael is the shorter watch at 1h 19m compared with 1h 30m. Call Us Ishmael is the older of the two (2018 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Call Us Ishmael
Everest Dark| Call Us Ishmael | Everest Dark | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 0.0/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2018 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 19m | 1h 30m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | Canada |
| Director | David Shaerf | Jereme Watt |
| Main cast | Laurie Anderson, David Shaerf, Frank Stella, Nathaniel Philbrick, Philip Hoare | Jaswant Dev Shrestha, Pem Futi Sherpa, Nim Tsiri Sherpa, Nima Temba Sherpa, Mingma Tsiri Sherpa |
Synopsis
Call Us Ishmael
Each and every year hundreds of people flock to New Bedford, MA in bleak mid-winter to partake in a celebration like none other. They read this single book out loud over the course of two full days without stopping. All of these people have one thing in common: they are obsessed with Moby Dick, the book that most call the Great American Novel.
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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