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Director: Richard Lyford    More Info
Starring: Fredric March

 This Academy Award winner for Best Documentary features Fredric March narrating the story of the life of Michelangelo through the use of his paintings and sculpture.

Director: Thor Heyerdahl    More Info
Starring: Ben Grauer, Thor Heyerdahl

 Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary, this is the story of Thor Heyerdahl's trip on a raft from South America to Tahiti proving that it was possible for ancient sailing boats to cross the Pacific Ocean.

Director: Irwin Allen    More Info
Starring: Don Forbes

 This winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary is based on Rachel Carson's study that explored the oceans of the world and its inhabitants.

Director: Merian C. Cooper    More Info
Starring: Lowell Thomas

 This was a great documentary at the time of its release. Narrated by Lowell Thomas, it demonstrates the advances of the Cinerama format over previous, older, formats. Additionally, stereo sound was introduced. Scenery is great-from Niagara Falls to a roller coaster ride to a trip across country from the nose of a B-25 plane.

Director: James Algar    More Info
Starring: Winston Hibler

 Disney's first true-life adventure feature received the Academy Award for its instructive examination of the Great American Desert. Winston Hibbler narrates, as he does for several Disney documentaries.

Director: Nancy Hamilton    More Info
Starring: Katharine Cornell, Helen Keller, Polly Thompson

 This Academy Award-winning documentary tells the amazing story of Helen Keller who became blind and deaf from an illness at the age of 1 1/2 years. The documentary was made when Helen was 74 years old, and her early life is told through film clips and stills. Camera shots of her life at the time of the filming include her walks along a 1,000 foot handrail around her yard, performing daily tasks, and reading her Braille Bible. Narrated by Katharine Cornell.

Director: James Algar    More Info
Starring: Winston Hibler

 This Academy Award winner from Disney Studios is an excellent documentary about wildlife on the American prairie. Winston Hibler narrates.

Director: Isaac Kleinerman    More Info
Starring: Alexander Scourby

 This feature-length documentary is a distillation of the original 26 episode series first aired on TV in 1952-53, and still seen from time-to-time in syndication. The film/series covers outstanding newsreel footage of the history of naval combat in World War II from the outbreak in 1939 to "VJ" day in 1945. Famous composer Richard Rogers wrote the great score that also became a hit album.

Director: James Algar    More Info
Starring: Winston Hibler

 In this excellent Disney documentary, the African lion is studied in its native habitat. Winston Hibler narrates.

Director: Alain Resnais    More Info
Starring: Michel Bouquet

 Combining black-and-white newsreel clips with colorful footage of the present, this powerful documentary vividly depicts the dehumanization of Nazi Concentration Camps during the Holocaust.

Director: James Algar    More Info
Starring: Winston Hibler

 This Disney True-Life Adventure looks at wonders of nature from sea creatures to volcanoes.

Director: Jacques Cousteau    More Info
Starring: Jacques Cousteau, Frederic Duman, Albert Falco

 This winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary follows an expedition of Jacques Cousteau on his research ship Calypso. Louis Malle worked with Cousteau on the direction of the film.

Director: Jerome Hill    More Info
Starring: Albert Schweitzer, Fredric March, Burgess Meredith

 This biography of humanitarian Albert Schweitzer's service in French Equatorial Africa won the Academy Award for Best Documentary.

Director: Robert Altman    More Info
Starring: Martin Gabel

 This documentary is narrated by Martin Gabel and includes outtakes from Dean's films as well as film footage from public performances. Boring.

Director: Paul Kenworthy Jr.    More Info
Starring: Ralph Wright, Winston Hibler

 This Disney nature film revolves around a baby squirrel and follows its maturing process as it adapts to nature.

Director: Bert Stern    More Info


 The Who's Who of the Jazz world were present at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, and Bert Stern did an excellent job in filming the highlights. Highlights of the America's Cup races of that year, which occurred nearby, are also shown.

Director: James Algar    More Info
Starring: Winston Hibler

 Disney Studios was given the Academy Award for Best Documentary. It is an excellent film about life in the Arctic with beautiful scenery.

Director: Bernhard Grzimek    More Info


 This Academy Award winner for Best Documentary shows, in beautiful photography, the Serengeti National Park and its surroundings, as well as the struggles of the film's Director and his brother in preserving this paradise with its varied animals.