Short Documentary Movies

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A group of tourists, including five women, cross the Mauvais Pas, a rocky passage equipped with a railing, next to the Mer de Glace Glacier. One of...

Released on May 4th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on February 23rd, 1919.

Released in June of 1921, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

He is one of the ten best-known people on the planet. He has many names...and millions of faithful followers around the world. We name him Father...

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

Step into a world suspended in vapor, color and time. This film is a visceral visual poem that plunges audiences into the heart of a 126-year-old...

Released on August 3rd, 1919.

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

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

This Norwegian sport is much practiced by the Swiss youth as well as the visitors to the winter resorts. Many successful jumps (the unsuccessful...

Released in March of 1921. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on March 30th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A climbing expedition by a mountain guide and a woman to the summit of Mount Wedgwood, on a training climb in preparation for an attempt to scale...

...where the whole expedition, by the breaking of an ice cornice on the summit, escaped death by a hair's breadth. The miraculous escape is recorded...

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

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1918, produced by Frederick Burlingham.