Soundie Movies

An alpine ascent around the snow-covered area of Monte Cevedale by a large group of mountaineers equipped with crampons and ice axes. The group...

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

A soundie featuring The Balators, Jack and June Blair, and Dorn & Delsa.

In an alpine ascent with two customers, a mountain guide hears a distress call from another roped party. After guiding the couple he accompanies to...

A lively, crowded tavern is the setting for this soundie where the title song is performed while the while couples are energetically dancing the...

Presented as a kind of docu-fiction, the film shows training maneuvers by the young mountaineers of the Scuola Centrale Militare di Alpinismo...

Michaela Kiersch goes on a global sending spree.

Documentary film of the Swiss newsreel about climbing in the Kreuzbergen. The film was produced in August 1943 by the Zurich company Gloria Film AG....

Colin Haley attempts a solo winter ascent of Cerro Torre.

Ben Mayforth redefines adaptive climbing in his intense pursuit of 5.13.

Filmed in the Colorado Rockies, this film portrays the dangerous sport of mountain climbing and shows special equipment needed, together with its...

A short film played at the beginning of Reel Rock 20.

Olympic champion Janja Garnbret sets her sights on Bibliographie.

Jeunes Montagnards is a documentary about alpinism that takes place on the Aiguilles Du Diable. It was produced in 1945.

Documentary film material was produced during the 1938 expedition to Nanga Parbat, led by Paul Bauer. The German Himalaya Foundation had planned a...

Klettern im Eis is an instructional documentary about ice climbing produced in 1945 by filmaker and producer Theo von Hörmann, producer of the...

Klettern im Fels is an instructional documentary about rock climbing produced in 1945 by filmaker and producer Theo von Hörmann, producer of the...