Arnold Fanck Movies

A documentary about skiing at the beginning of the century.

Documentation of a journey along the Great Wall of China to the Ku-Pei-Kuo pass fortress.

Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there...

In the mountains, Diotima meets Karl and fall in love and have an affair. Karl's friend Vigo mistakenly believes she's in love with him, causing...

An expedition goes in search of a party lost in the Arctic a year earlier. (The English-language version of S.O.S. Eisberg.)

Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes...

The cloud phenomena of Maloja are so well-known that some of them have names, such as the Maloja snake, a cloud bank that winds its way through the...

After a mountaineer is killed attempting to climb a difficult mountain, his son dreams of conquering the peak that has defeated his father. But his...

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

Struggle for the Matterhorn (German: Der Kampf ums Matterhorn) is a 1928 German-Swiss silent drama film co-directed by Mario Bonnard and Nunzio...

At the end of the 18th century, the wealthy French scholar Saussure comes to a small Alpine village and offers 1,000 pieces of gold to anyone who can...

An expedition goes in search of a party lost in the Arctic a year earlier.

A reportage cross-cutting film about the development of Africa from 1900-1936, using archive footage and film material from earlier African...

Hannes is employed at the Mont Blanc Observatory; the only outside connection is a pilot and Hella over the radio. Hella ascends the mountain but her...

The released version of the championship boxing match between Jack Dempsey vs Georges Carpentier from July 2, 1921.