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White Wilderness

Documentary and Nonfiction Film

White Wilderness is a 1958 nature documentary film produced by Walt Disney Productions as part of its True-Life Adventures series, directed by James Algar. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and is noted for a staged sequence that helped spread the enduring myth that lemmings undertake mass suicide.

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Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film 1
Release Year
1958 2
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James Algar, Figures
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1. White Wilderness (Wikidata)
Wikidata P166: Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
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Wikidata P166 (award received): Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film.
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2. White Wilderness (film) (Wikipedia)
  • Article lead sentence
    White Wilderness is a 1958 pseudo-documentary film produced by Walt Disney Productions as part of its True-Life Adventure series.
  • Created By: James Algar, Infobox: director
    James Algar
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