Everest Dark vs Sworn to the Drum: A Tribute to Francisco Aguabella

Everest Dark has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.8/10 for Sworn to the Drum: A Tribute to Francisco Aguabella). Sworn to the Drum: A Tribute to Francisco Aguabella is the shorter watch at 35m compared with 1h 30m. Sworn to the Drum: A Tribute to Francisco Aguabella is the older of the two (1995 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 5.8/10
Year20251995
Length1h 30m35m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
CountryCanadaUS
DirectorJereme WattLes Blank
Main castJaswant 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…

Sworn to the Drum: A Tribute to Francisco Aguabella

When you think of Latin percussion, think of Francisco Aguabella. Perhaps the finest Afro-Cuban master percussionist still living, he has become synonymous with his instrument — one of the highest compliments a musician can receive. Indeed, what Carlos Santana is to the guitar, Aguabella is to the conga drum.

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