Everest Dark vs The ABCs of Book Banning

Everest Dark has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.3/10 for The ABCs of Book Banning). The ABCs of Book Banning is the shorter watch at 27m compared with 1h 30m. The ABCs of Book Banning is the older of the two (2024 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Everest DarkThe ABCs of Book Banning
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 6.3/10
Year20252024
Length1h 30m27m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
CountryCanadaUnited States of America
DirectorJereme WattSheila Nevins
Main castJaswant Dev Shrestha, Pem Futi Sherpa, Nim Tsiri Sherpa, Nima Temba Sherpa, Mingma Tsiri SherpaGrace Linn, Maia Kobab, Jonathan Capehart, Nikki Giovanni, Amanda Gorman

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…

The ABCs of Book Banning

In recent years, more than 2,500 books have been removed from school districts around the US, labeled as banned, restricted, or challenged, and made unavailable to millions of students. By no accident, the themes targeted are the usual scapegoats of the American Right—LGBTQ+ issues, Black History, and women’s empowerment—impeding the power of future generations to develop their own thoughts and opinions on critical social issues. By weaving…

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