20th Century Movies

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on April 27th, 1919.

Plot TBA; set against the backdrop of the Bedouin community in the early 20th century, a turbulent period in the region as it started consolidating...

A Chilean woman, Teresa, comes into a firmly structured and isolated mountain community of Croatian shepherds in the early 20th century, claiming to...

The mountain guide and ski instructor Hans Turri has been hired by the tourist Gregory Milacz to make a route in the mountains. Both are caught by a...

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

An ongoing experiment, evolving from a biopic about Soviet physicist Lev Landau into a large scale project – part cinematic cycle, part...

On September 28th, 1903, the Urban Mountaineering Expedition, headed by Frank Ormiston-Smith, left Zermatt to attempt the conquest of the Matterhorn....

Released in 1922.

Follows the personal and professional evolution of Giorgio Armani, who passed away in September 2025, aged 91, and is widely regarded to be among the...

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Pawlak and Kargul – the protagonists of the cult-favourite trilogy “Our Folks” – had been neighbours in a village in Podolia...

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Released in June of 1921, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Released in January of 1921. Produced by Frederick Burlingham.

A young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing on the nearby mountains.

This Oscar-nominated animated short tells the story of a dapper young remittance man who is sent from England to Alberta to attempt ranching in 1909.

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