20th Century Movies

The peak of the sun is in the High Tatras. The mountain guide Carlo tried to climb it several times without success. When he finally gets it, he...

During the First World War, a 14-year-old boy is under fire from bombs in the Besançon region. Wounded, he wakes up in the cellar of his...

Released in 1917.

A seven-year-old boy's magical childhood with his street performer father ends tragically. Years later, he struggles with anger and bitterness,...

In August 1914, war between France and Germany seems imminent. Mata Hari, a beautiful Dutch-born dancer working in Paris, accepts an invitation to...

The story of Holocaust survivor Emil A. Fish, who was nine years old when he and his family in Bardejov, Slovakia were sent to a concentration camp.

Expert mountain-guide Maciste lives in the Dolomites. He dotes on his young nephew Hans, the illegitimate son of his sister, who died of a broken...

Account of the first French expedition to the Himalayas, which attempted to climb the hidden peak (Gasherbrum I) in 1936, from the preparations for...

Tracks the creation and survival of a sacred religious artifact across 500 years, weaving back and forth between a series of interconnected chapters...

Lancelot is sent through time by Merlin to protect young Arthur before he becomes King of Camelot, but by accident, they both end up in present day...

A multi-award winning biography covering the life and career of legendary screen and stage actor/director Laurence Olivier.

A look at the life of Tintin creator Georges Remi, known by the pen name Hergé, whose tales of reporter Tintin and his canine sidekick Snowy...

Travelogue released on the 31st of July, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A mountain film set around the popular ski pass in the 1930s.

An Austrian military officer and rogue attempts to seduce the wife of a surgeon. The two men confront each other in a test of abilities that ends...

1918, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Travelogue documenting extremely isolated areas in Switzerland between Bernese Alps and the Rhone River.

In this trip Burton Holmes takes your patrons to Java, the richest island of the Dutch East Indies, and Batavia, its capital city, one of the most...

A photoshoot on the roofs and in the streets of Paris, under the astonished eyes of the inhabitants.

In the first decades of the 20th century, when life was being transformed by scientific innovations, researchers made a thrilling new claim: they...