Black White Movies

American civil rights attorney John Burris lends his sonorous voice to "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty" director Terence Nance’s...

"She Climbs to Conquer" shot by W.J. Oliver, was a noteworthy film which gained well merited acclaim. Made in 1933 it pictured the climb of Georgia...

The ascent of the spectacular needle Guglia Rudatis (2.202 meters), in the Italian Dolomites by a group of rock climbers. A group of six men leave a...

An official training film from the War department. In April 1942, a detail of five enlisted men and two officers, Capt. Paul Lafferty and Lt. John...

An official training film from the War department. In April 1942, a detail of five enlisted men and two officers, Capt. Paul Lafferty and Lt. John...

The legend says that the summit of Mont Blanc is covered in gold. This ancestral belief has obsessed Jacques Balmat, a mountain guide, from his...

An elderly resident meets a newly arrived one in a train ride full of surprises

Hermann Perren, mountain guide, prepares the ascent of Dent du Requin with a companion. He checks the equipment necessary for any mountaineer, rope,...

The film is presented as a climbing film from Tirol's mountain world based on an idea by Kurt Maix, and it's a touristical film of the series 'Bilder...

Klettern im Fels (in English, "Rock Climbing") is a German silent documentary about rock climbing. It was directed by the cameraman Hermann Schadock...

In 1941, under the Vichy regime, during the Nazi occupation, a team of six people crossed the Mont-Blanc massif. Leaving the Arve Valley with a month...

A young man enjoying a refreshing hike in the mountains discovers a small boy living in an ancient temple. Trapped there by an evil spirit, the...

An alpine ascent Monte Rosa glacier by a large group of mountaineers equipped with crampons and ice axes. The group ascends from the Gabiet lake to...

Stephan, the son of an old-school mountain guide, is seduced by a city beauty. He leaves his mother, siblings, and girlfriend and travels to Zurich....

"A 'Full-day exercise in the Bernina area' by mountain soldiers under the command of Major Charles Golay. At two o'clock, 130 men broke up in...

The restaurant opens. Customers eat. The restaurant closes. For one employee, this daily routine becomes his personal hell.

A film by Richard 'Dick' Leonard produced by the American Alpine Club about mountaineering in Sierra Nevada (California). Richard Manning Leonard was...

En cordée is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in Aiguillette D'argentière. It was directed by Jacques Berr in 1942 and...

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...

Die Eiger-Nordwand is a documentary about alpinism that takes place on the Eiger. It was directed by Max Herrmann in 1936. It features Fritz Steuri,...