The 14 Best Mountain Documentaries

14 documentaries

Climbers, summits and what it takes to come back down.

Climbers, summits and what it takes to come back down. Free Solo is Alex Honnold climbing El Capitan with no rope, and The Dawn Wall is the same rock done the slow, brutal way. Touching the Void is the survival story every climber knows.

Free Solo poster

1

Free Solo

2018 · 1h 40m

8.197%

Touching the Void poster

2

Touching the Void

2003 · 1h 46m

7.993%

The Dawn Wall poster

3

The Dawn Wall

2017 · 1h 41m

8.1100%

Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa poster

4

Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa

2023 · 1h 44m

7.6100%

Sherpa poster

5

Sherpa

2015 · 1h 36m

7.698%

The Alpinist poster

6

The Alpinist

2021 · 1h 33m

7.993%

Torn poster

7

Torn

2021 · 1h 32m

7.4100%

14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible poster

8

14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible

2021 · 1h 41m

7.792%

Meru poster

9

Meru

2015 · 1h 29m

7.788%

Valley Uprising poster

10

Valley Uprising

2014 · 1h 39m

8.1

Mountain poster

11

Mountain

2017 · 1h 13m

7.287%

The Man Who Skied Down Everest poster

12

The Man Who Skied Down Everest

1975 · 1h 26m

7.1

Beyond the Edge poster

13

Beyond the Edge

2013 · 1h 33m

6.869%

The Summit poster

14

The Summit

2012 · 1h 35m

6.865%

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