20th Century Movies

Released on the 13th of August, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

The film is a kind of docu-fiction about a boy who enrolls in a battalion of young mountain troops. The film follows his daily life in the military...

Released in June of 1921, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Travelogue released on the 14th of May, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

The legend says that the summit of Mont Blanc is covered in gold. This ancestral belief has obsessed Jacques Balmat, a mountain guide, from his...

As the Vietnam War heats up, two sons of a widowed southern farmer choose divergent paths: the older son enlists and fights overseas, while the...

1921, written & produced by Burton Holmes.

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

The great glacier of the Selkirks in the Canadian Switzerland is equivalent to thirty Switzerlands of the Overseas. In this picture you are...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Travelogue released on June 10th, 1918. Directed & produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on the first of May, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on the 8th of May, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on November 16th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A group of men shows the 'before and after' physical effects of a journey upon the Mount Aspiring area. Mount Aspiring (9,960 ft.), known as the...

Released on the 17th of April, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on the 24th of April, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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...