climbing movies

I've checked this website before, it's database collection of movies about climbing and mountaineering: mntnfilm.com

Maxwell Hvolbek wrote:

Kinda blown away I never heard on this movie till now when a friend recommended it to me. "Third Man on the Mountain".

40 minutes in and it is one of the best climbing "mainstream movies" i've come across. Really delving into details with awesome shots of the alps, old gear, glaciers, rock, and real hard-man rock climbing. Would be curious to hear other's input on how accurate the simul-climbing/belay techniques are. And would be really cool to see contemporary shots of the glaciers for climate change reference.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053352/

Gaston Rébuffat directed the climbing scenes. I really enjoyed this film when it came out in 1959 or 1960. Based on a novel, Banner in the Sky, that was based on Whymper's ascent of the Matterhorn. I was the same age as the young actor (James MacArthur) . 

One summer around this time I was coming down from a climb in Garnet Canyon behind Willy Unsold and his clients as they had descended from the Grand. In Lupine Meadows Willy let out a huge yodel and in the distance I could see his wife come out of their guide shack with her two children, calling back. The incident has stuck with me all these years because it was something right out of a Disney movie and so like a scene in the film. The color, the action, the characters, the beauty of the Tetons, all of it. 

Aunt Patty wrote:

slight drift, anyone got a lead on where i can watch/buy uncommon ground? been looking around for some time and am coming up empty

It's on YouTube in its entirety! 

Autoroute is the best climbing movie of all time. 

Gaston Rébuffat directed the climbing scenes. I really enjoyed this film when it came out in 1959 or 1960. Based on a novel, Banner in the Sky

Written by James Ramsey Ullman. It was a young man's novel, with parallels to John Harlin II and III, in weird way. I read it as a boy and it was part of the hook that drew me into a life of climbing, just like Rudi. But I've never seen 3rd Man, now I must!

Scott Biegert wrote:

I would recommend "Touching the void"  

This ^

Just rewatched the other night. Still amazing!

Progression and Dosage IV are both really good.

Smitten, an Australian climbing film. Groove Train at 1 hour 13 minutes has the best music and will supply endless psyche

https://youtu.be/1Ri_C9RV5Jc?si=r5jNUaux1VgsAN5W

Rooftown, 3 volumes on YouTube. Volume 2 is my favorite boulder film of all time.
https://youtu.be/9nWAXMhY-2I?si=8tbLM1lRR2jKkAx8

Western Gold, by Alex Savage

King Lines, featuring Chris Sharma

Reel Rock, my favorite is “Obe and Ashima”

Dosage 

Progression

Heritage, featuring Carlo Traversi

Chasing Winter, featuring Paul Robinson 

High Anxiety  (1977) by Mel Brooks  ?!

A Line across the Sky and Dodo's Delight are the absolute best Reel Rocks.

'North Face' is really well done.  Also 'Eiger Sanction'.  Spectacular climbing and great movies.  (I know OP requested no actors, but these are really superb stories and climbing cinematography on the Eiger)

Free Solo and The Dawn Wall. Meru is another epic one that’ll get your adrenaline pumping.

You will have to watch First Ascent. The movie about the battle of first ascent of Cobra Crack. One of the climbers just came back after 19 years and the story has a perfect ending.