Documental Movies

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on May 6th, 1918.

Ceylon is the land of perpetual and exceeding beauty, her people picturesque in dress and quaint in personality, often amusing and always...

A mountaineering tour on a glacier in the Alps. The film follows a group of mountaineers as they leave the hostel. Then they climb up fixed ladders...

The second release in the series picks up Mr. Holmes' fellow-travelers at the very brink of the Grand Canyon, just as a train has arrived at the El...

A game of ice-hockey in progress in the Alps.

The two guides Adrien and Félix Veillon with the customer Rotschild climb the Argentine ridge in the Swiss canton of Valais. The film was so...

Released on October 2nd, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released on December 18th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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

Released on December 14th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Documentary made by students from the Universidad Católica de Chile about the life of Alicia Ríos, a Psychology student murdered 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...

Swiss lace is world famed, and much of the best of it is produced by the busy hands of the inhabitants of this pretty Swiss village.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on the 17th of June, 1918.

Travelogue released on November 11th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1921, written & produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on the 13th of October, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on the 16th of July, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The train leaving the Schiedegg station and entering the Eiger tunnel en route for the station Eigerwand.