America Movies

This short looks at the sport of rock climbing. A team of three men ascend a rock wall on Southern California's Tahquitz Rock (also known as Lily...

Race/America follows Robb Holland, one of the few Black professional race car drivers in the United States, as he fights for the GT America...

The film was produced by Jerome Hill as 'a document of skiing according to the principles of Hannes Schneider.' It features Otto Lang, director of...

Nice looking Travelogue takes us to the Northeast corner of Wyoming as we visit Yellowstone National Park.

After a six-week trial, four men have been convicted in the United States in a high-profile case connected to the storming of Capitol Hill in...

On August 15th, 2006, filmmaker Ryan Dacko set out to get a 30-minute meeting with a major Hollywood producer by running on foot from Syracuse, New...

The first picture of the new Paramount-Burton Holmes Travel pictures recount Mr. Holmes' motor trip of the summer of 1913 through the more...

At America's elite MIT, a Ghanaian alum follows four African students as they strive to graduate and become agents of change for their home countries...

An experimental documentary featuring international college students commenting on their experiences of cultural isolation in America.

Released on the 10th of December, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A look at three U.S. cities, which were part of many communities that violently forced African American families to flee in post-reconstruction...

1921, written & produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on the 16th of July, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A cinematic essay interweaving private archive images and a mixture of reflective, speculative and poetic intertitles that, like “an old movie...

Known also as 'The Crystal Ascension', the film chronicles an exploration of Mount Hood and its glaciers by a mountain-climbing party who explore the...

Surfer and author, Allan C. Weisbecker, accompanied by his dog Honey, goes on the road in search of waves to ride and "to find out what happened to...

Released on March 13th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

The second release in the series picks up Mr. Holmes' fellow-travelers at the very brink of the Grand Canyon, just as a train has arrived at the El...

In perhaps the most emotional release of the year, Captain Canada aka Sidney Crosby lets us know that Four Nations are... what? Watch this 1hr long...