20th Century Movies

Released in November of 1920. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released on the 29th of July, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Young Artie Hamilton gets expelled from college, and his angered father--a wealthy railroad baron--throws him out of the house. Artie tells his...

Released on the 31st of December, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

In September 1932, a party of climbers composed of Bruno Detassis, Gino Corrà and Nello Bianchini completed the first ascent of the Paganella...

Die Eiger-Nordwand is a documentary about alpinism that takes place on the Eiger. It was directed by Max Herrmann in 1936. It features Fritz Steuri,...

Showing eight views of the most difficult portions of the railway, including the steepest gradients, practically, hanging on to the sides of the...

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

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

A contrast between two kinds of attitudes to gay liberation in Adelaide.

Released on March 19th, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Richard Wellington leads Western State Collegers from Gunnison up to Gothic Mountain in the Elk Mountains, Colorado. The film is an episode of the...

"We have only one really tropic state in the good old U.S.A., and that is Florida, and so, just returning from the tropics of the Far East, Mr....

Departure of the steamer from Interlaken, and giving throughout its entire length, a film picture of exceptional beauty. The stereoscopic effect is...

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

Travelogue released on November 6th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

"This picture shows a party of ten, tied together with a rope, with their spiked shoes biting into the treacherous icy path, mounting slowly upward...

A mountaineering tour on the Franz Josef Glacier, on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. After leaving the Fox Glacier Hotel, two...

Produced by Olympic Productions, the film shows an adventurous band of climbers making their successful assault on the heights of Mount Bulyea in the...