Dokumentarfilm Movies

Released on the 13th of August, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Swiss documentary on the ascent of the Eiger by the Mitellegi ridge. After spending the night in the hut located 625 meters below the summit, two...

Released on the 24th of July, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Vers les Cimes is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in the Bernese Alps. It was directed by Charles-Georges Duvanel in 1940 and produced...

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on May 11th, 1919.

"L'ascension du Mont Pelvoux" is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in Mont Pelvoux. It was directed by André Bayard in 1922 and...

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Travelogue documenting extremely isolated areas in Switzerland between Bernese Alps and the Rhone River.

1906, produced by Charles Urban, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released on January 19th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on the 20th of March, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

A rope of two mountaineers surveys the Argentière glacier making their way through crevasses and seracs. A film by René Moreau,...

Three mountaineers, including a woman, climb the l'Aiguille du Moine, in the Mont Blanc Massif departing from the Couvercle Shelter. Facing walls...

Released in 1915, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Surabaya, Java, is the busiest headquarters of the Dutch in the Far East. Here the white-clothed man from Holland has established the commercial...

The ascent of the Aiguille Verte in the Mont Blanc Massif by the ridge of the Moine. Two climbers, the mountain, and the rope. No plot, no tragedy,...

Released on the 16th of July, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

The second release in the series picks up Mr. Holmes' fellow-travelers at the very brink of the Grand Canyon, just as a train has arrived at the El...