Everest Dark vs The Edge of Democracy

Everest Dark has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.7/10 for The Edge of Democracy). Everest Dark is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 2h 1m. The Edge of Democracy is the older of the two (2019 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Everest Dark posterEverest Dark2025 VS The Edge of Democracy posterThe Edge of Democracy2019
Everest DarkThe Edge of Democracy
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.7/10
Year20252019
Length1h 30m2h 1m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
CountryCanada–
DirectorJereme WattPetra Costa
Main castJaswant Dev Shrestha, Pem Futi Sherpa, Nim Tsiri Sherpa, Nima Temba Sherpa, Mingma Tsiri SherpaNelson Mandela, Barack Obama, Dilma Rousseff, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Michel Temer

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 Edge of Democracy

A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.

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