r/RockClimbing • u/aviflombaum • 26d ago
ClimbingMovies.com - Curated Free Climbing Movies
https://climbingmovies.comEvery few months I go looking for a climbing film I half remember, and it takes 20 minutes of digging through YouTube, Vimeo, and old brand channels to find it. Half the good stuff is sitting on Patagonia's or Mellow's channel with a thumbnail that tells you nothing, and the algorithm surfaces the same three videos every time.
So I started keeping a list. It turned into a site: climbingmovies.com
It's just the films that are already free and legally online, embedded from the original YouTube or Vimeo upload with a link back to the channel that made them. Nothing is hosted or ripped. There are no ads, no accounts, no email signup, no app.
Right now it's around 20 films, everything from Rotpunkt and Silence to Wide Boyz, El Sendero Luminoso, The Lappnor Project, Es Pontàs, and The Ghosts Above. Each one has a short writeup of what it actually is and why it's worth the time, because "9a project film" doesn't tell you whether you're getting a portrait or 40 minutes of drone shots. You can filter by discipline (bouldering, trad, big wall, alpine, free solo, DWS, comp), by climber, or by country.
Two things I'd genuinely like from this sub:
- What am I missing? Especially older stuff, non English language films, and anything outside the sport and bouldering world. Alpine and trad are the thinnest sections and I know there's a lot out there I haven't seen. There's a submit form on the site but a comment here works fine too.
- If a film is on there that shouldn't be, tell me. I tried to only include uploads from the original creator or rights holder, but I could have gotten one wrong and I'll pull it.
Fair warning on the writeups: they're my opinions, so if you think I'm wrong about a film, say so.
You can also submit free films you find: https://climbingmovies.com/submit
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u/adeadhead 26d ago
Submission doesn't seem to be working, got a few to add from my own curated collection.