Everest Dark vs Planet of the Birds

Everest Dark has the higher audience score (10/10 against 8/10 for Planet of the Birds). Planet of the Birds is the shorter watch at 44m compared with 1h 30m. Planet of the Birds is the older of the two (2018 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Everest Dark posterEverest Dark2025 VS Planet of the Birds posterPlanet of the Birds2018
Everest DarkPlanet of the Birds
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 8.0/10
Year20252018
Length1h 30m44m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
CountryCanada–
DirectorJereme WattChris Weber
Main castJaswant Dev Shrestha, Pem Futi Sherpa, Nim Tsiri Sherpa, Nima Temba Sherpa, Mingma Tsiri SherpaRodd Houston

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…

Planet of the Birds

From the North Pole to remote islands, birds can live almost anywhere. How do these resilient animals thrive in such different environments? They have become hardy and versatile through their bodies, feathers, movements, and songs. In this global birding tour, we learn about these nomads of the sky.

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