Citadel

Name: Citadel
Genre: Adventure, Documentary
Released: 2015-10-08
Rating: 6

AdventureDocumentary50m

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90%

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71%

Popcornmeter

6.0

TMDB

Storyline

Dubbed ‘The Mountain God’, the Citadel is a stunning 3000m peak in one of the remaining untouched corners of the Great Alaskan Range: The Neacola Mountains. Due to their typically poor conditions and remote location are largely unexplored. Matt Helliker and Jon Bracey are one the UK's most formidable partnerships in alpine climbing with many world class ascents to their names from the UK to the Alps and the greater ranges. Their objective is to make the first ascent of the extraordinary 1200m long north-west ridge.

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DirectorAlastair Lee

ReleasedOct 8, 2015

StatusReleased

Original languageEnglish

Budget

Not disclosed

Revenue

Not disclosed

Parental guideNot rated

Studio

Posing Productions

Reviews

7 reviews · 6 critics

5 fresh · 1 rotten

Walter Goodman

RTNew York TimesJan 10, 2018

... still has considerable punch despite the placebo of a plot.

Dave Kehr

RTChicago ReaderJan 31, 2012

Though it has Vidor's favorite theme of personal rebirth and his enduring country/city dichotomy, it lacks his usual fire.

Variety Staff

RTVarietyJan 31, 2012

Picture is studded with many brilliantly human and dramatic sequences.

Matt Brunson

RTFilm FrenzyAug 4, 2025

A.J. Cronin’s 1937 novel is justifiably famous for helping inspire the creation of the U.K.’s National Health Service in 1947, and it probably didn’t hurt the cause that this 1938 adaptation was a critical and commercial success.