Agassizhorn: Mountain of Shame (2018)
• December 5th, 2018 • 0h 27min
Documentary
Overview
In the Bernese Alps, the Agassizhorn peak memorialises Louis Agassiz – a controversial 19th-century scientist, who not only named the mountain after himself, but who claimed he had discovered the Ice Age and went on to become one of the century's most virulent, most influential racists.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Crack Climbs and Land Mines, Alex Honnold in Angola
Released on: 2015-12-15
Documentary, Adventure
Alex Honnold is the most accomplished free climber in the world. Angola is a southwest African count...
Trilogy for One Man
Released on: 1987-08-03
Documentary
The most legendary 'sequence' ever achieved by a mountaineer: on 12 and 13 March 1987, in 40 hours, ...
Ueli Steck – Auf schmalem Grat
Released on: 2020-05-21
Documentary
Deceased but not forgotten. In 2017, Switzerland's most famous mountaineer, "Swiss Machine" Ueli Ste...
Riccardo Cassin, 100 Anni - Un secolo di alpinismo passato alla storia
Released on: 2009-01-02
Documentary, Adventure
The Brenva in Winter
Released on: 2020-11-27
Documentary
63 years ago, two boys set out to climb Mont Blanc in the wintertime. Lost in a storm, they remained...
Echoes 'Cross the Tracks
Released on: 2012-03-01
Documentary, History, Music
A powerful documentary starring Morgan Freeman about the genesis of The Blues in the South and the m...
The Divided Union: The Story of the American Civil War
Released on:
Documentary
Peter Batty presents a gripping account of the bloodshed and horror of the American Civil War. From ...
The Birders
Released on: 2019-02-08
Documentary
The film highlights legendary Colombian birdwatching guide Diego Calderon-Franco and National Geogra...
Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest
Released on: 2024-01-19
Documentary
Transcending cultural barriers and consistently going against the grain, female Nepali climber Pasan...
Black Man's Houses
Released on: 1993-03-12
Documentary
In 1832 the government of Van Diemen’s Land sent the last Aboriginal resistance fighters into exile ...
My Grandmother Trelotótó
Released on: 2019-05-06
Documentary
«My grandma had a great strength and love for life which made me believe that some of us were able t...
L'Ascension Des Aiguilles Ravanel Et Mummery
Released on: 1924-01-01
Documentary, Adventure
"The ascent of the Aiguilles Ravanel and Mummery", climbed by young guides in cycling pants: The bro...
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
Released on: 2024-07-26
Documentary
A Nepali mountaineer risks everything on a record-breaking Mount Everest climb to secure a brighter ...
Tooton's Photography: In the Business of Making Memories
Released on: 2018-03-01
Documentary
The magnificent story of Anthony Maurice Tooton (I) as told by his Great-Grandson: Anthony McGrath T...
Jean des Bossons
Released on: 1947-01-01
Documentary, Drama
Jean des Bossons is a documentary-fiction which recounts the activities of a high mountain guide in ...
Fatal Promises
Released on: 2009-04-01
Documentary
Every year, an estimated 800,000 persons are trafficked across international borders and forced into...
The Backstage Wall
Released on: 1983-01-01
Documentary, Adventure
Behind the scenes of the filming of a film on climbing a cliff by Patrick Berhault and Georges Unia ...
Martha: A Picture Story
Released on: 2019-11-28
Documentary
In 1970s New York, photographer Martha Cooper captured some of the first images of graffiti at a tim...