The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough

Fall 2

Bas Jan Ader rides his bike into a canal in Amsterdam.

1970

TGV Paris-Bordeaux, la ligne de tous les records

2021

Cavalcade of San Francisco

This Traveltalk series short celebrates San Francisco, past and present.

1940

Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.

1888

A Bridge at the Edge of the World

Year 1969 - in Turkey. 60s youth were living the most excited days. There was a great effort to make a bridge in Istanbul, on the Bosphorus. Meanwhile

2007

Abegweit

A day-to-day record of the construction of the Confederation Bridge linking Prince Edward Island to the mainland, Abegweit reveals some of the innovat

1998

The Bridge

The Bridge is a controversial documentary that shows people jumping to their death from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco - the world's most pop

2006

Pelican Dreams

Sundance-and-Emmy-Award-winning filmmaker Judy Irving (with her first film since the widely acclaimed and loved “The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill”)

2014

Aces & Knaves

Aces & Knaves is a documentary about mental gymnastics, competition, and cheating in bridge - the most complex game ever invented by the human mind.

2019

Paris on the Seine

A history of the bridges of Paris, through modern views and historical engravings.

1941

Walk on water

An often humorous documentary about the building of the Öresund bridge, connecting Copenhagen in Denmark to Malmö in Sweden. We meet the people who wo

2000

Angel of Nanjing

The Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing is one of the most famous bridges in China. It is also the most popular place in the world to commit suicide. For

2015

Opening of the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge

Extraordinary pictures of an accident with a royal audience at Middlesbroughs magnificent Transporter Bridge.

1911

Les allumés du pont Jacques-Cartier

The story behind the technical prowess deployed to light up the Jacques-Cartier Bridge.

2017

Maillart's Bridges

Famed Swiss architect and artist Robert Maillart was renowned for his concrete bridges; this documentary examines the elegant design of his engineerin

2001

Dans les coulisses du métro de Paris

2016

Storstrøm Bridge

A wordless ode to the Storstrom bridge.

1950

Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges - Part 1

The Battle of Arnhem, fought in the early autumn of 1944, remains without a doubt the most hotly debated battle of the North West European Campaign, b

El puente

The efforts of a community to build a bridge which would allow their children to go school during the rainy season.

1951

Golden Gate Bridge

This program tells the story of a hustler and self-promoter, a man who had never designed or overseen the building of a suspension bridge. Joseph Stra

2004