Climbing films by discipline
Every style of climbing has its own films. Pick yours.
Climbing is several sports that share a rope, or don't. Bouldering films are short and movement-focused. Sport films follow a redpoint project over weeks or years. Trad and big wall films are about commitment and logistics as much as difficulty. Alpine and expedition films add weather, altitude and distance. Free solo and deep water solo films strip the safety system away. Pick a discipline to see every film about it, with an introduction to the style and the crags and climbers that define it.
Bouldering
Short, savage, and stripped to pure movement. These bouldering films follow the world's strongest climbers to the forests and blocs where grades are broken.
18 films
Sport Climbing
Bolts, projects, and the redpoint game. Films about the world's hardest sport routes and the climbers obsessed with them.
28 films
Trad
Gear-protected climbing where boldness counts as much as strength, from gritstone headpoints to desert crack machines.
46 films
Big Wall
Multi-day ascents of the world's great faces: haul bags, portaledges, and thousands of feet of exposure.
52 films
Alpine
High peaks, thin air, and serious consequences. Alpinism and expedition films from the great ranges.
18 films
Free Solo
Climbing without a rope, where the margin for error is zero. Watch the most controlled climbers on earth.
9 films
Competition
Plastic, pressure, and podiums. Inside the World Cup circuit and the athletes who dominate it.
1 film
Deep Water Solo
Ropeless climbing over the sea. Psicobloc from Mallorca and beyond, where every fall ends in water.
4 films
Ice Climbing
Frozen waterfalls and swinging tools. Ice and mixed climbing in winter's most ephemeral arenas.
3 films
Documentary
The culture, history, and characters of climbing, beyond any single ascent.
66 films