DOCUMENTARY. Join a band of trekkers as they journey through rugged terrain and extreme conditions to look out from Africa’s highest point in the latest mountain adventure film from David Breashers (Co-Director and expedition leader of Everest). Photographed in the world’s largest and most evocative motion picture format, this film takes its viewers to the expansive slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro where they can experience the exceptional climates and landscapes of this mystical mountain. This adventure of the human spirit follows five trekkers and their Chagga Mountain Guide up the largest freestanding mountain in the world. Along their journey of courage and endurance they encounter strange landscapes and endure harsh conditions as they travel through five climate zones ranging from the lower rainforest reaches of Kilimanjaro to the summit’s artic glaciers, all the while learning about the formation of the African continent and the Great Rift Valley.
2. THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO (1952)
FICTION. As writer Harry Street lays gravely wounded from an African hunting accident he feverishly reflects on what he perceives as his failures at love and writing. Through his delirium he recalls his one true love Cynthia Green who he lost by his obsession for roaming the world in search of stories for his novels. Though she is dead Cynthia continues to haunt Street’s thoughts. In spite of one successful novel after another, Street feels he has compromised his talent to ensure the success of his books, making him a failure in his eyes. His neglected wife Helen tends to his wounds, listens to his ranting, endures his talk of lost loves, and tries to restore in him the will to fight his illness until help arrives. Her devotion to him makes him finally realize that he is not a failure. With his realization of a chance for love and happiness with Helen, he regains his will to live.
3. SUMMIT ON THE SUMMIT (2010)
DOCUMENTARY. Ascend Mount Kilimanjaro—where music, culture, and an urgent global mission collide on the roof of Africa. Towering 19,341 feet above the vast East African plains, Kilimanjaro stands as a stark, solitary giant and a fragile frontier in the global battle against the clean water crisis. To conquer its punishing, oxygen-starved heights, climbers must endure an exhausting trek through five distinct ecological worlds, transitioning from steamy tropical rainforests into arctic desert and crumbling glacial fields near the summit.
Kilimanjaro is both a breathtaking proving ground and an alarming bellwether for our changing planet. More than one billion people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water, an invisible emergency that claims millions of lives each year while the mountain’s own legendary ice caps rapidly dwindle. Scaling this peak is not merely a test of endurance; it is an appeal to the world’s conscience, turning an unforgiving natural wonder into a platform of global solidarity and survival.
Summit on the Summit captures this high-stakes expedition as Grammy-nominated musician Kenna leads an extraordinary crew of cultural icons—including Jessica Biel, Emile Hirsch, Santigold, and Lupe Fiasco—up the treacherous slopes of Kilimanjaro. Battling crippling altitude sickness, freezing storms, and sheer physical exhaustion, this unlikely team risks everything to reach Uhuru Peak and shine an unyielding spotlight on the world’s water crisis.
4. DOCUMENTARY. At 19,340 feet, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa is the tallest free-standing mountain in the world and a daunting climb for any person to attempt. Born with cerebral palsy, Bonner Paddock, not a mountain climber by his own admission and with only a few months of training under his belt, disregards his Doctor’s advice in the hopes of defying his condition and raising money for charity at the same time. Despite a weak lower body, spastic leg muscles, zero sense of balance and lack of climbing experience, Bonner tackles the impossible feat of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro head on. Bonner soon learns there is no preparation for what he finds on the mountain. Over 8 days, 64 miles, sheer cliffs, sub-zero temperatures, and ever-thinning oxygen, Bonner and his team are truly tested beyond their own physical and mental limits in this stirring documentary. Academy Award Nominee Michael Clarke Duncan narrates.