Alps Movies

A former Fascist takes his son and escapes across the border into France, where he tries to avoid being recognized and having to pay for his wartime...

Released in 1917.

In 1910, Arrigo Frusta and the operator Giovanni B. Vitrotti took the camera up to the 4000 meters high of the Mont Blanc chain to make three short...

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

Miha invites his fiancée Minka to the dance, but he's tempted by another big desire of his - climbing. Frustrated Minka insists on the...

A wildlife documentary about marmot.

The Tagliamento, known as the "King of the Alpine Rivers," is considered Europe's last untamed river. Its course stretches from the peaks of the...

A student, a railway worker and a peasant go on a trip to the Julian Alps and meet people on their way.

...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...

"Dispenser", the first Italian documentary entirely dedicated to bouldering, brings together some of the protagonists of the Italian scene, who have...

Released in 1915.

Expert mountain-guide Maciste lives in the Dolomites. He dotes on his young nephew Hans, the illegitimate son of his sister, who died of a broken...

The first filmed winter ascent of the north face of the Matterhorn. To set the scene, the tragic story of Edward Whymper's first ascent is skillfully...

We follow Dan to the Italian alps where he tries to snowboard, or - as it was originally called - snurf. Watch:...

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...

Released in 1939.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps, rises to 4,810 m and was first climbed on August 8, 1786. Chamonix natives Jacques Balmat and Michel...

A record of the ascent of the Jungfrau by Frederick Burlingham accompanied by four mountain guides. The film starts with panoramics of the Eiger...

Alle 4000er der Alpen is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in the Bernina Range and the Bernese Alps. It was directed by Samuel Gyger in...