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 | The Edge of Democracy | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.7/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2019 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 2h 1m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | Canada | – |
| Director | Jereme Watt | Petra Costa |
| Main cast | Jaswant Dev Shrestha, Pem Futi Sherpa, Nim Tsiri Sherpa, Nima Temba Sherpa, Mingma Tsiri Sherpa | Nelson 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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