Mountain Movies

After World War II, more than 85% of the Albanian people were illiterate. Partisan soldier Dritan Shkaba is tasked with opening new schools in north...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Daniele has built a tailor-made life: silent, empty, controlled. But when his only glass shatters on the floor, that perfect balance collapses....

Five Kiwis take on a paragliding adventure in Tanzania, with the ultimate aim to fly from the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro.

An exciting story of Husine coalminers who formed a partisan batch and put up an armed resistance during WW2 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Tom and Mark are a close-knit rope team. While Mark dreams of Nanga Parbat, Tom furnishes the new house with his girlfriend Franziska. Tom has a...

Released on July 30th, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Pseudo-ethnological documents about two villages which, without roads and electricity, "stopped existing".

Starting from the Swiss village of Zermatt, two people and a guide make a perilous ascent of the Matterhorn. Local villagers mount a torchlight...

Life in a detachment at the foot of the mountain range is altered by an accident and by a woman.

An early silent color film of Glacier National Park and Mount Rainier. The film is part of the 'Our Colorful World' series, produced by Bell &...

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

Adela is a single mother, hardworking and humble. While she works, her mother takes care of her son. Immersed in her obligations that don't allow her...

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

"In this film of the 'Vagabond Adventure Series', Tom Terris takes us to New Zealand in a kind of travelogue film. We accompany a client and a...

A series of vignettes captured in Brevard, North Carolina at the end of December.

A story about life adversities of an old emigrant who returns from America to his native village.