Everest Dark vs The Act of Killing
Everest Dark has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.7/10 for The Act of Killing). Everest Dark is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 57m. The Act of Killing is the older of the two (2012 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Everest Dark
The Act of Killing| Everest Dark | The Act of Killing | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.7/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 1h 57m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | Canada | – |
| Director | Jereme Watt | Joshua Oppenheimer |
| Main cast | Jaswant Dev Shrestha, Pem Futi Sherpa, Nim Tsiri Sherpa, Nima Temba Sherpa, Mingma Tsiri Sherpa | Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, Syamsul Arifin, Ibrahim Sinik, Yapto Soerjosoemarno |
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 Act of Killing
In this chilling and groundbreaking documentary, former Indonesian death squad leaders reenact their real-life mass killings in the style of various film genres, from gangster epics to musicals. As they recreate their past atrocities, the line between reality and performance blurs, exposing the lingering impact of Indonesia’s 1965-66 anti-communist purge and the unsettling psychology of its perpetrators.
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