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.

In Inukjuak, an Inuit community in the Eastern Arctic, a baby boy has come into the world and they c...

Drawing on original footage from National Geographic, Etched in Bone explores the impact of one noto...

A Maasai human rights lawyer fights to stop the evictions of his people from their homelands in Tanz...

A documentary about surrealist artist Salvador Dali, narrated by Orson Welles.

1967: Two of the world's best climbers, Yvon Chouinard and Royal Robbins, tackle the west face of Se...

Les Etoiles de Midi is an engaging docudrama about some of the more spectacular exploits of French m...

In 1954, a German-Austrian expedition led by Mathias Rebitsch set off for the difficult-to-access Ka...

For decades, an elite handful of climbers have competed for the coveted speed record on the 3,000-fo...

Pierre Mazeau has managed to unite three of his passions which seem to have nothing in common, at a ...

After a long career as a commercial and portrait photographer, mischievous San Francisco artist Mich...

A study of the psychology of a champion ski-flyer, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.

Georges Livanos, nicknamed the Greek but pure child of Marseille, amateur mountaineer, opened more t...

Georges Livanos. A name that hardly evokes anything, or not much, even in the heart of Chamonix, the...

In 1984 Ron Fawcett, is one of the most athletic climbers, he takes pleasure in taking up the challe...

Heinz Mariacher got closer to the mountains by climbing the most important peaks of the Dolomites. H...

Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective...

"Gerboise bleue", the first French atomic test carried out on February 13, 1960 in the Algerian Saha...