Arnold Fanck Movies

Professional dancer Diotima finds herself the apex of a love triangle when she is pursued by two mountain climbers, Vigo and his older friend.

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

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...

An expedition goes in search of a party lost in the Arctic the year before. This is the English language version of the German film S.O.S. Eisberg...

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...

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...

In a lonely outpost atop the treacherous Mont Blanc, an intrepid scientist lives with minimal connection to the world below. Through the telegraph,...

An expedition goes in search of a party lost in the Arctic the year before. The English language version of this German film was made at the same...

Short film about seals, the hunt for them and how they are processed afterwards.

A profile of the 1928 Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

IM KAMPF MIT DEM BERGE: IN STURM UND EIS, a mountain-and-snow adventure film directed by his friend Arnold Fanck in 1920.

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

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...

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

A romantic comedy mostly set on skis: a girl tries to show her boyfriend that she is just as good at winter sports, and gets help from two other boys.

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

A documentary about skiing at the beginning of the century.