Map Movies

Snapshot of map production. It introduces the history of surveying in the Czech Republic, methods of measuring position and different types of maps.

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is a cartographer and activist from the Fulbe people in Chad. Land and water are becoming scarce as desertification advances...

Presented as a kind of docu-fiction, the film shows training maneuvers by the young mountaineers of the Scuola Centrale Militare di Alpinismo...

Trapped in a recurring cycle of sleep paralysis, a man desperately searches for a way to break free.

An official training film from the War department. In April 1942, a detail of five enlisted men and two officers, Capt. Paul Lafferty and Lt. John...

The map of an American city goes on a quest across the world to find oil in order to feed its body, made of streets, highways and freeways.

Cimes is a drama about alpinism that takes place in Mont Pelvoux. It was directed by Jean Vernet in 1941 and produced by Films de Cavaignac. It...

Follow a group of boys as they learn forestry, map reading, camping, canoeing and rock climbing.

The film is a kind of docu-fiction about a boy who enrolls in a battalion of young mountain troops. The film follows his daily life in the military...

An alpine ascent Monte Rosa glacier by a large group of mountaineers equipped with crampons and ice axes. The group ascends from the Gabiet lake to...