Everest Dark vs The Queen of Versailles

Everest Dark has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.9/10 for The Queen of Versailles). Everest Dark is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 40m. The Queen of Versailles is the older of the two (2012 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Everest Dark posterEverest Dark2025 VS The Queen of Versailles posterThe Queen of Versailles2012
Everest DarkThe Queen of Versailles
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 6.9/10
Year20252012
Length1h 30m1h 40m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
CountryCanada–
DirectorJereme WattLauren Greenfield
Main castJaswant Dev Shrestha, Pem Futi Sherpa, Nim Tsiri Sherpa, Nima Temba Sherpa, Mingma Tsiri SherpaJacqueline Siegel, David Siegel, Virginia Nebab, Katie Stam, Lorraine Barrett

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 Queen of Versailles

With the epic dimensions of a Shakespearean tragedy, The Queen of Versailles follows billionaires Jackie and David’s rags-to-riches story to uncover the innate virtues and flaws of their American dream. We open on the triumphant construction of the biggest house in America, a sprawling, 90,000-square-foot mansion inspired by Versailles. Since a booming time-share business built on the real-estate bubble is financing it, the economic crisis…

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