Alps Movies

A film being photographed from the front of the engine. A grand view of the snow-clad peaks of this fine range of mountains is depicted from an...

The Tyrolean David Lama has climbed an 8a route already at the age of ten, and he has become several times Youth World Champion and European Youth...

Documentary featuring the ascent of the Matterhorn (Cervino) completed in 1911 by Mario Piacenza along the guides of Valtournenche Joseph Gaspard and...

Travelogue released on August 28th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released in April of 1921, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

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...

"Flammes de Pierre" is the first documentary made by Gaston Rébuffat himself in 1947. It depicts Rébuffat in full ascent of the Flammes...

A scene of harvesting hay on the great winter playground. The group of busy reapers, with hand scythes, in the foreground, the Swiss maids who...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

The spectacular railroad panorama in the Alps, taken from a train passing through various tunnels, and over the great Wassen Loops.

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...

Scenes from a series filmed for Charles Urban by mountain expert Frank Ormiston-Smith, including The Battle of the Snow, Ski Jumping in the Alps, and...

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The stalls with their keepers and stores of laces are being inspected by English and American tourists, who no doubt takeaway with them a goodly...

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...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Released in 1922.

The mountain guide Jakob is a controversial figure. His supposed father dies and leaves behind a great heritage to the people. In the town they...

In the final season of the original 119-year-old Le Refuge de la Charpoua, hutkeeper of eight years, Sarah Cartier, and her two children, embrace the...