Everest Dark vs Lost in La Mancha

Everest Dark has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.1/10 for Lost in La Mancha). Everest Dark is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 33m. Lost in La Mancha is the older of the two (2002 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Everest Dark posterEverest Dark2025 VS Lost in La Mancha posterLost in La Mancha2002
Everest DarkLost in La Mancha
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.1/10
Year20252002
Length1h 30m1h 33m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
CountryCanadaUnited Kingdom
DirectorJereme WattKeith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Main castJaswant Dev Shrestha, Pem Futi Sherpa, Nim Tsiri Sherpa, Nima Temba Sherpa, Mingma Tsiri SherpaJeff Bridges, Johnny Depp, Jean Rochefort, Vanessa Paradis, Terry Gilliam

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…

Lost in La Mancha

Fulton and Pepe's 2000 documentary captures Terry Gilliam's attempt to get The Man Who Killed Don Quixote off the ground. Back injuries, freakish storms, and more zoom in to sabotage the project.

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