Everest Dark vs The Salt of the Earth
Everest Dark has the higher audience score (10/10 against 8.1/10 for The Salt of the Earth). Everest Dark is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 50m. The Salt of the Earth is the older of the two (2014 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Everest Dark
The Salt of the Earth| Everest Dark | The Salt of the Earth | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2014 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 1h 50m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | Canada | – |
| Director | Jereme Watt | Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders |
| Main cast | Jaswant Dev Shrestha, Pem Futi Sherpa, Nim Tsiri Sherpa, Nima Temba Sherpa, Mingma Tsiri Sherpa | Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Hugo Barbier, Lélia Wanick Salgado |
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 Salt of the Earth
During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of our recent history: international conflicts, starvations and exodus… He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of the wild fauna and flora, of grandiose landscapes: a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty…
Where to watch
Where to watch Everest DarkWhere to watch The Salt of the Earth
More like Everest Dark · More like The Salt of the Earth · Compare other titles