Documentary
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The Vanishing Prairie
The Vanishing Prairie
Story of the American Prairie as it was when vast herds of bison and elk grazed.
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Thursday's Children
Thursday's Children
Won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short of 1954. The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent. T...
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Elizabethan Express
Elizabethan Express
Originally intended as an advertising short, this film follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along the...
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Autumn in Badacsony
The Conquest of Everest
The Conquest of Everest
A documentary of the first successful expedition to the summit of Mount Everest. New Zealand's Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay climb Mount Ev...
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Cease Fire!
Cease Fire!
A sometimes uncomfortable marriage between fact and fiction, this film is part documentary and part drama, mixing actual war footage with reenactments...
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The Living Desert
The Living Desert
Although first glance reveals little more than stones and sand, the desert is alive. Witness moving rocks, spitting mud pots, gorgeous flowers and the...
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Prowlers of the Everglades
Prowlers of the Everglades
Part of the "True-Life Adventure Series"; Disney filmmakers take their cameras to Florida, not to document the swamps that would become Walt Disney Wo...
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A Queen Is Crowned
La Villa Santo-Sospir
La Villa Santo-Sospir
Cocteau takes the viewer on a tour of a friend's villa on the French coast (a major location used in Testament of Orpheus). The house itself is heavil...
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The VI Olympic Winter Games, Oslo 1952
The VI Olympic Winter Games, Oslo 1952
A documentary covering the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway.
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Water Birds
Water Birds
Water Birds is a 1952 short documentary film directed by Ben Sharpsteen. The film delves into the still waters of lagoons and marshes to the wild blue...
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The Olympic Elk
The Olympic Elk
Join the majestic Olympic elk as they traverse the alpine path from their winter home in the lowland shadow of Washington's Mount Olympus, to the fert...
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A Portrait of Ga
A Portrait of Ga
Another early experiment in portraiture from Tait. In filming her mother she asks the wider question of how much the camera can reveal of the person.
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Nature's Half Acre
Nature's Half Acre
The strange and wonderful world that lies beneath our feet, under leaf, log and rock, peopled by millions of weird and fascinating creatures. Released...
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Caribbean
Caribbean
Tradition, dance and song, modern customs and development and welfare services in the Caribbean Islands.
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Day of the Fight
Day of the Fight
'Day of the Fight' shows Irish-American middleweight boxer Walter Cartier during the height of his career, on the day of a fight with black middleweig...
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Flying Padre
Flying Padre
Two days in the life of priest Father Fred Stadtmuller whose New Mexico parish is so large he can only spread goodness and light among his flock with...
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The Golden Twenties
The Golden Twenties
Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.
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Meditation on Violence
Meditation on Violence
Chao-Li Chi shadow boxes indoors and practices with a sword outdoors. Theoretically, the film describes in a single continuous movement three degrees...
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Blood of the Beasts
Blood of the Beasts
An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside the n...
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Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
How, in November 1945, after the end of the World War II and the fall of the Third Reich, the international prosecutors participating in the first Nur...
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XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport
XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport
A documentary covering the 1948 Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and London, England.
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Furnival and Son
Furnival and Son
Story of work in a cutlery manufacturing firm in Sheffield told through story of the son who enters the business.
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In the Street
People of the Po Valley
People of the Po Valley
A documentary short detailing the life of Italians living on the Po River in the 1940s.
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