The Beckoning Silence (2007)

Directed by

Louise Osmond

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 15m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This documentary follows climber Joe Simpson as he retraces a 1936 disaster on the Eiger mountain in Switzerland. It examines why climbers risk their lives to attempt a dangerous ascent that killed five people.

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What happens

The Beckoning Silence is a 2007 British television film that follows and retraces the 1936 Eiger north face climbing disaster where five climbers perished while attempting to scale the north face of the Eiger mountain in Switzerland. The film features climber Joe Simpson, whose book of the same name inspired the film. In 2008 it won an International Emmy Award for Best Documentary. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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