Everest Dark vs The Hockey Player
Everest Dark has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for The Hockey Player). The Hockey Player is the shorter watch at 1h 20m compared with 1h 30m. Everest Dark is the older of the two (2025 against 2026). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Everest Dark
The Hockey Player| Everest Dark | The Hockey Player | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.0/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2026 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 1h 20m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | Canada | – |
| Director | Jereme Watt | Jacqueline Doorey |
| Main cast | Jaswant Dev Shrestha, Pem Futi Sherpa, Nim Tsiri Sherpa, Nima Temba Sherpa, Mingma Tsiri Sherpa | Luke Prokop, Jacob Tierney, Mark Borowiecki, Gary Bettman, Brock McGillis |
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 Hockey Player
A documentary that follows Canadian-born defenseman Luke Prokop as he decides to become the first — and still only — professional athlete playing under contract to an NHL team to come out as gay. Growing up in Edmonton steeped in Canada’s tough, often homophobic hockey culture, and playing without gay role models throughout professional sports, Luke’s path to coming out of the closet has been neither easy nor obvious. The film charts Prokop’s…
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