Documental Movies

Released in January of 1921. Produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Elite alpinist Colin Haley lays everything on the line in a legendary winter solo push on Cerro Torre – one of Patagonia’s most iconic...

The peculiarity of this waterfall, with its narrow funnel-shaped opening, from which, on to the jagged rocks the torrent dashes, is here portrayed in...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

During an impossible summer in Havana, Ava, a young trans artist, proposes that we film a fiction so she can kiss the boy she likes. We become...

Released in March of 1921. Produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Marcel Ichac accompanied the mountaineer Armand Charlet, in 1943, in the repetition of the first crossing of the Aiguilles du Diable that the guide...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The official record of Mallory and Irvine's 1924 expedition. When George Mallory and Sandy Irvine attempted to reach the summit of Everest in 1924...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Released on April 11, 1920. Directed & produced by Burton Holmes.

This short looks at the sport of rock climbing. A team of three men ascend a rock wall on Southern California's Tahquitz Rock (also known as Lily...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

On September 28th, 1903, the Urban Mountaineering Expedition, headed by Frank Ormiston-Smith, left Zermatt to attempt the conquest of the Matterhorn....

The film was produced by Jerome Hill as 'a document of skiing according to the principles of Hannes Schneider.' It features Otto Lang, director of...

1918, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

A documentary illustrating the mountain sports activities of the university students of the GUF (Gruppi universitari fascisti) in Val Gardena,...