Short Documentary Movies

Released in 1930. Direction, production, writing & cinematography by Adam Krzeptowski

Britain's first complete rock climbing film, by Stanley Watson. A film about climbing in the Lakes. Norah Johnstone, a teacher at Keswick Grammar...

Short version of 'Nanga Parbat' (1936), the record of the 1934 German expedition to Nanga Parbat, led by Willy Merkl and with the full backing of the...

"We have only one really tropic state in the good old U.S.A., and that is Florida, and so, just returning from the tropics of the Far East, Mr....

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...

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

Released on August 3rd, 1919.

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

Released in June of 1914.

Travelogue released on September 25th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

In this trip Burton Holmes takes your patrons to Java, the richest island of the Dutch East Indies, and Batavia, its capital city, one of the most...

A travelogue set in the jungles of Borneo.

Released in January of 1921. Produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Account of the first French expedition to the Himalayas, which attempted to climb the hidden peak (Gasherbrum I) in 1936, from the preparations for...

Released on September 4th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Through an intimate memory shaped by ritual and inherited belief, Aavasam traces the quiet transformation of everyday customs and spaces as fluid...

...From its terrace one gets a magnificent view down the Valley of the Bow River. The natural bathtub at the Hot Springs, the Government pool, free...

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Released in March of 1921. Produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Travelogue released on October 16th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.