Best Full-Length Climbing Documentaries

Patagonia's 2020 feature on five climbing communities and what the sport looks like away from the professional circuit.

Metanoia: the life of Jeff Lowe, from ice climbing's invention to his solo new route on the Eiger and his illness.

Alex Megos and the redpoint, told through his attempt on Perfecto Mundo. Patagonia's best climbing film.

Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall train in a Sheffield cellar and then climb Century Crack, the hardest offwidth in the world.

Chris Sharma and Obe Carrion on a bouldering road trip in 1999, the film that introduced Sharma to the world.

Dean Potter, from Yosemite soloist to wingsuit pilot, and the ethic that killed him.

The feature cut of Alphane: Raboutou, Woods, Webb, Hong and Camargo working one of the hardest boulders on earth.

A second angle on Potter, closer to the climbing and the Yosemite years.

Cédric Lachat and Nina Caprez on the great multi-pitch routes of Switzerland.

Dave MacLeod's Rhapsody at Dumbarton Rock, the first E11 and the film that showed what British trad had become.

The Favresse brothers, Sean Villanueva and Ben Ditto sail to Greenland with Bob Shepton and climb new big walls from the boat.

Honnold and glaciologist Heidi Sevestre on Greenland's Ingmikortilaq, a 4,000-foot sea cliff.

Ammon McNeely and hard aid on El Cap.