Dahomey vs Everest Dark
Everest Dark has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.6/10 for Dahomey). Dahomey is the shorter watch at 1h 8m compared with 1h 30m. Dahomey is the older of the two (2024 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dahomey
Everest Dark| Dahomey | Everest Dark | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.6/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2024 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 8m | 1h 30m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | Canada |
| Director | Mati Diop | Jereme Watt |
| Main cast | Lucrèce Hougbelo, Parfait Vaiayinon, Didier Sedoha Nassangade, Sabine Badjogoumin, Dowoti Desir | Jaswant Dev Shrestha, Pem Futi Sherpa, Nim Tsiri Sherpa, Nima Temba Sherpa, Mingma Tsiri Sherpa |
Synopsis
Dahomey
Thousands of royal artifacts of Dahomey, a West African kingdom, were taken by French colonists in the 19th century for collection and display in Paris. Centuries later, a fraction returned to their home in modern-day Benin. This dramatized documentary follows the journey of 26 of the treasures as told by cultural art historians, embattled university students, and one of the repatriated statues himself.
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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