Documental Movies

1. Lake steamer leaving Lucerne. 2. Panorama of Lucerne Lake front. 3. The picturesque Village Weggis. 4. The oldest Chalet at Trieb. 5. Brunnen -...

Produced by Olympic Productions, the film shows an adventurous band of climbers making their successful assault on the heights of Mount Bulyea in the...

Four experienced mountaineers climb the three floors of the Eiffel Tower through the pillars of the building. A police officer, overwhelmed by the...

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...

Shot in 1941, this black-and-white instructional film (featuring actor Alan Ladd) serves as a veritable time capsule on the history of the sport,...

Documentary on one of the first editions of the Trofeo Mezzalama, the highest ski mountaineering race in Europe, at more than 4,200 meters above sea...

A record of the ascent of the Jungfrau by Frederick Burlingham accompanied by four mountain guides. The film starts with panoramics of the Eiger...

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

Short version of the film 'Kampf um den Himalaja', released for the home market. The film shows images of the 1937 German expedition to Nanga Parbat,...

The world-famed Simmenthal cattle, bred by Herr Rebmann, are seen leaving the valley for the summer pastures on the Grimmalp. The herds are...

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...

Record of the 1936 British Mount Everest Expedition led by Hugh Ruttledge. Although the North Col was reached, a combination of high winds, storms...

Richard Wellington leads Western State Collegers from Gunnison up to Gothic Mountain in the Elk Mountains, Colorado. The film is an episode of the...

A documentary that brings together personal memories and rare footage of the nightclub that operated in Copacabana from 1984 to 1989. Featuring...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

The chief event of the day at Grimsel Hospice.

A pioneering mountaineering film made by Frank Ormiston-Smith for the Warwick Trading Company in 1902. Ormiston-Smith himself led and filmed an...