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- Story of the American prairie as it was when vast herds of bison and elk grazed there.
- A feature-length condensed version of the documentary TV series Victory at Sea (1952).
- A documentary film which follows a mailman as he travels along the Birdsville Track in the Outback.
- This documentary chronicles the life of Helen Keller, who was struck by an illness as a young child that left her both blind and deaf. Aided by her devoted teacher, Anne Sullivan, Keller is able to develop ways to communicate and becomes an author and advocate. Made when Keller was 72 years old, this film, directed by Nancy Hamilton and narrated by actress Katharine Cornell, features old and recent footage of Keller as her remarkable journey leads her to meet President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- A journey to the Spanish colonies in Equatorial Africa
- Long underwater documentary, and sort of a scientific diary, with a group of scientists, sportsmen and journalists, filmed at the Red Sea around the Dahlak Islands, the Egyptian coast, Sudan and Eritrea, the deserted Brother and Zabargadh islands, the calm waters of Gubbet Mus Nefit Bay and the coral forest of Shawdan. Sharks, barracuda, venomous fish and deadly mantas add excitement to the sharp black and water photography.
- Swedish mondo movie. An expedition goes hunting for a giant snake in the Amazon jungle. Very prejudiced against the indigenous people of the Amazon. Followed by Jangada, situated in the same jungle.
- Photographed and produced by both Jackson Leighter...and his wife...and, while not wishing to disillusion those who state this has only been seen at film festivals, this clinker of a travelogue was booked and seen in thousands of theatres in 1954. It follows Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Kahn---with all the production value of a home-movie made by Joe Blow---through their wedding trip, which started at the long-lost city of Pompeii, Italy, preceded to Athens and then to Cairo.They and their retinue move up the Nile to Luxor and into the African domain of Aly's father, the Aga Kahn---quick, add him to the cast---spiritual leader of millions of Ismaelis. Then onward to Uganda, Tanganyika, and into the Congo. Those expecting to see intimate views of the royal couple are in for a disappointment...they do not even get as cozy as a hand-shake. Rita would have been well-advised to have asked Harry Cohn for the loan of some of Columbia's make-up people.
- Underwater exploration by oceanographers and geologists round the coast of Southern California and Mexico. Portrays many species and varieties of fish and mammals as well as ocean flora and rock formation.
- A true film account of a three-month safari in the big game hunting areas of the Dark Continent, undoctored with any faked plot or contrivance.
- This is a film in two parts. The first part deals with the efforts of African officials (read: British)to conserve the jungle wild life. Tribes make their living by capturing animals for sale, and also killing them for their hides, and it is these poachers the film deals with. The second part is most of the footage from a 1949 British documentary that won a special Oscar in 1950, "Daybreak in Udi," aka "Daybreak at Udi" in the U.S.A. This segment shows how a tribe works together, with the aid of government officials, to build a maternity hospital, against the opposition of an influential tribesman.
- An inside look at U.S. Army basic training by following recruits from the moment they arrive at their assigned Army installation. After learning their training maneuvers, the recruits are sent all over the world to execute their skills.
- A documentary about the Norwegian explorer of polar regions Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen and his extraordinary life. He was a key figure in the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Explorations early in the 20th century.
- A one-family documentary from Elmo Williams and his wife Lorraine. The former, who won an Academy Award for his editing of "High Noon", co-produced, directed, edited and photographed (probaly not the camera operator) it from a script by wife Lorraine Williams, who also co-wrote the three songs used. Filmed in part in all of the western states of the United States and using real cowboys, ranging in age from 'teens to their eighties, Williams examines every aspect of the jobs of the working cowboys across the years from the first ranching empires to the present day. No movie cowboys here, other than Tex Ritter as one of the narrators.
- Another of the half-dozen or so films released in 1954 about the six-month-long tour of the Commonwealth taken by Queen Elizabeth and Philip. This one covers the same world-wide territory as most of the others, but gives more time and footage upon the Queen's return home. She and Philip come up the River Thames (joined by Charles and Anne), through the streets of London by motorcade, and make an appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to the estatic cheers of thousands all the way.
- A record of the 1954 visit to Australia by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and his Royal Highness Prince Philip.
- The official feature length record of the German team victory in the fifth World Cup staging held in June and July of 1954 in Switzerland. The tournament set records for goals scored and featured 15 other competitors in 26 matches.
- Caroline Cram (Marian Seldes) finds herself in an analyst's office awkwardly and hesitantly groping for the truth about her hopelessness, fears, loneliness, and anxieties.
- A Communist supported essay film, centering on great rivers of the world such as the Amazon, accompanied by Shostakovich and Paul Robeson music, and also contrasting ways of life under American capitalism and Soviet style socialism.