History Film / TrueLifeAdventures

* ''Seal Island'' (1948) -- Filmed in the Pribilof Islands of Alaska, featuring the migration of seals. (Academy Award Winner)

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* ''Film/NaturesHalfAcre'' (1951) -- The world of plants and insects through the sesons in an American meadow. (Academy Award Winner)

* SpiritualSuccessor: The independent films released by Disney's specialty label, Disneynature.
** ''Perri'' is one for ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'', being based on a book by the same author, thus acting as a sort of live-action sequel to it. There is even a guest appearance by the grown-up Bambi (or rather, a live stag identified as such).

* ''White Wilderness'' (1958) -- Filmed in Canada, this feature tells the story of life in the Arctic tundra. This film is notorious for perpetuating the myth that lemmings commit mass suicide. (Academy Award Winner)

* SuicidalLemmings: ''White Wilderness'' is infamous for talking about the lemmings throwing themselves off cliffs during their migrations.

* ''Natures's Half Acre'' (1951) -- The world of plants and insects through the sesons in an American meadow. (Academy Award Winner)

* ''Beaver Valley'' (1950) -- Filmed in the forests of Minnesota, this film explores the life of the beaver. (Academy Award Winner)

** ''Perri'' is one for ''Disney/{{Bambi}}'', being based on a book by the same author, thus acting as a sort of live-action sequel to it. There is even a guest appearance by the grown-up Bambi (or rather, a live stag identified as such).

* WidescreenShot: The last reel of ''Secrets of Life'' was filmed in [=CinemaScope=].

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: A scene from ''The Living Desert'' features the story of a skinny ground squirrel who is ostracized by his peers for being a runt until he wards off a poisonous lizard.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: ''The Living Desert'' gives us the tarantula hawk, a wasp that kills a tarantula with a poison sting and then moves a large rock (which, to a human, is like towing a 30-ton truck with your teeth) while digging a hole to bury its victim for her young to feast on.

* ''The Living Desert'' (1953) -- Filmed in the deserts of the American west, showing the environment, climate and wildlife of locations like Death Valley and Monument Valley. Notably, this was the first feature-length entry in the series, and was the first feature released by Disney's own distribution company, Buena Vista Distribution. (Academy Award Winner)

'''True-Life Adventures''' were a series of [[NatureDocumentary nature documentaries]] produced by Creator/WaltDisney from 1948 to 1960. Originally starting out as a series of two-reel short subjects, they eventually blossomed into full-length features. In all, the series won eight [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Academy Awards]], and it helped popularize the nature documentary as an enjoyable form of entertainment.

!!!Films in the series:

* DocumentaryOfLies: ''White Wilderness'' is infamous for perpetuating the myth of lemmings committing suicide by jumping into the sea in droves through a staged sequence where lemmings purchased by the filmmakers were put on a snow-covered turntable pushed into the Arctic Ocean. Granted, the narration didn't say they were committing mass suicide, but that they were migrating down a path and that they would even cross bodies of water to get to their migration spot, suffering from exhaustion and drowning if the body of water was too wide.
** It also said that the scene of a polar bear sliding down a mountain was actually filmed in a studio rather than candidly.

* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Initially, RKO Radio Pictures, who distributed Walt Disney's films at the time, refused to release ''Seal Island'', claiming that audiences wouldn't want to see it because he was best known for making cartoons. Walt managed to convince theaters in New York and Los Angeles to run it to help qualify it for the Academy Awards; it ended up winning the award that year, convincing RKO to give it a proper release.

* ''Natures's Half Acre'' (1951) -- The world of plants and insects through the sesons in an American meadow. (academy Award Winner)

* ''Bear Country'' (1953) -- A look at the lives of grizzly bears in the natural habitats.

* ''The Vanishing Prairie'' (1954) -- Filmed in the American prairie, this film explores the lives of the bison and elk that roamed the wild west.

* ''The Olympic Elk'' (1952) -- A film detailing the life opf the Olympic elk, filmed at Olympic National Park in Washington.

* ''Secrets of Life'' (1956) -- Filmed in America, focusing on the lives of insects and plants and of the cycles of. The last reel of the film was photographed in [=CinemaScope=].

* ''Natures's Half Acre'' (1951) -- The wiorld of plants and insects throuhg the sesons in an American meadow. (academy Award Winner)

* ''White Wilderness'' (1958) -- Filmed in Canada, this feature tells the. This film is notorious for perpetuating the myth that lemmings commit mass suicide. (Academy Award Winner)
* ''Jungle Cat'' (1960) -- The final film in the series.

* DescendedCreator: Winston Hibler, a Disney storyman who wrote many of the scripts for the films, was the series' narrator.

* AllOfTheOtherRaindeer: A scene from ''The Living Desert'' features the story of a skinny ground squirrel who is ostracized by his peers for being a runt until he wards off a poisonous lizard.

* ''Prowlers of the Everlades'' (19053) -- A look at the beasts that roam Florida's Everglade swamps.
* ''The Living Desert'' 1953) -- Filmed in the deserts of the American west, showing the environment, climate and wildlife of locations like Death Valley and Monument Valley. Notably, this was the first feature-length entry in the series, and was the first feature released by Disney's own distribution company, Buena Vista Distribution. (Academy Award Winner)

* ''Jungle Cat'' (1960) -- The final film in the series,

* SpiritualSuccessor: The independent films released by Disney's specialty label, Disneynature.