Everest Dark vs Johnny Strange: Born to Fly
Everest Dark has the higher audience score (10/10 against 9/10 for Johnny Strange: Born to Fly). Johnny Strange: Born to Fly is the shorter watch at 1h 13m compared with 1h 30m. Johnny Strange: Born to Fly is the older of the two (2018 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| Everest Dark | Johnny Strange: Born to Fly | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 9.0/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2018 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 1h 13m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | Canada | – |
| Director | Jereme Watt | Eamon Harrington, John Watkin |
| Main cast | Jaswant Dev Shrestha, Pem Futi Sherpa, Nim Tsiri Sherpa, Nima Temba Sherpa, Mingma Tsiri Sherpa | – |
Synopsis
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…
Johnny Strange: Born to Fly
JOHNNY STRANGE: BORN TO FLY tells the extraordinary story of a 23 year old American adventurer, through candid interviews with his family, friends and Johnny himself, along with 100's of hours from Johnny's private video archive. The film asks the question what does it truly mean to be alive, and to what extent a young man's passion to seek the ultimate thrill was actually the most lethal form of addiction.
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