Diving Into the Darkness vs Icarus

Diving Into the Darkness has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.7/10 for Icarus). Diving Into the Darkness is the shorter watch at 1h 34m compared with 2h 1m. Icarus is the older of the two (2017 against 2024). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Diving Into the Darkness posterDiving Into the Darkness2024 VS Icarus posterIcarus2017
Diving Into the DarknessIcarus
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.7/10
Year20242017
Length1h 34m2h 1m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
CountryAustralia–
DirectorNays BaghaiBryan Fogel
Main castJill HeinerthBryan Fogel, Dave Zabriskie, Don Catlin, Grigory Rodchenkov, Scott Brandt

Synopsis

Diving Into the Darkness

Renowned Canadian cave-diver Jill Heinerth, fueled by an insatiable curiosity about Earth's hidden depths, embarks on legendary expeditions - from Mexico's extensive caves to Antarctica's iceberg realms. Amidst hair-raising dive footage, intimate interviews, and animated flashbacks Jill's motivations are unveiled. Despite over 100 personal losses in the deep, each odyssey brings her closer to the woman she aspired to be as a child. This film is…

Icarus

While investigating the furtive world of illegal doping in sports, director Bryan Fogel connects with renegade Russian scientist Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov—a pillar of his country’s “anti-doping” program. Over dozens of Skype calls, urine samples, and badly administered hormone injections, Fogel and Rodchenkov grow closer despite shocking allegations that place Rodchenkov at the center of Russia’s state-sponsored Olympic doping program.

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