Everest Dark vs Saved by the Lioness
Everest Dark has the higher audience score (10/10 against 4.2/10 for Saved by the Lioness). Saved by the Lioness is the shorter watch at 1h 10m compared with 1h 30m. Saved by the Lioness is the older of the two (2009 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Everest Dark
Saved by the Lioness| Everest Dark | Saved by the Lioness | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 4.2/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2009 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 1h 10m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | Canada | – |
| Director | Jereme Watt | Marjolein Duermeijer |
| Main cast | Jaswant Dev Shrestha, Pem Futi Sherpa, Nim Tsiri Sherpa, Nima Temba Sherpa, Mingma Tsiri Sherpa | Thom Hoffman |
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…
Saved by the Lioness
Nature documentary about a young wildebeest in the wilderness of Africa. The gnu calf strays from the herd and comes upon a lioness that kidnaps it. Instinctively, it treats the lion like its mother. And miraculously enough, the lioness does not see the calf as its prey. Like a true Survivor, the calf manages to escape from the lion's den and find its way back to its real mother.
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