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- A documentary that profiles nudism and its lifestyle around the world.
- A documentary exploring some of the tribes of South Africa, the wildlife, and some of the descendants of the Indian immigrants that settled in the country.
- This documentary, which was undertaken soon after James Dean's death, looks at Dean's life through the use of still photographs with narration, and interviews with many of the people involved in his short life.
- A documentary about the muria people of the Bastar jungle in central India.
- An Austrian mountain-climber ends up as a prisoner-of-war, escapes and befriends Tibet's 14th Dalai Lama.
- A compilation of scenes featuring some of the best-known comics from the silent era in their best films.
- The official filmed record of the 1956 Olympic Games in Australia.
- Seven expeditions penetrate the hidden far-out regions of four continents to bring from their depths the images of the ritual of love as practiced through the world.
- "Join Lowell Thomas and follow in the footsteps of Marco Polo" in this new, digital restoration of SEARCH FOR PARADISE, the fourth of the original, three-panel Cinerama travelogues. Released in 1957, the motion picture takes you to the "Roof of the World," the Himalayas and Karakoram mountains of Central Asia, the highest region in the world. You'll become part of the adventure as explorer Lowell Thomas searches for paradise in the ancient cities, wild waters and lush gardens of the mountaintops. Your first stop is the Forbidden Kingdom of Hunza, a hidden valley bordered by China, Russia, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, home to a legendary warrior tribe. Next, you'll challenge the rapids of the Mighty Indus River, fed from a fantastic galaxy of great glaciers draining from some of the greatest heights known to man. From there, find respite in the romantic Shalimar Gardens in the Vale of Kashmir, then fly to Katmandu for the coronation ceremony of King Mahendra of Nepal. The adventure concludes with a trip to a U.S. Air Force base, where Thunderbird jet planes cut across the sapphire blue sky overhead at supersonic speed. The film captures the imagination and paradise would be, beauty or adventure or peace.
- This biographical drama/documentary narrative written by Dr. Albert Schweitzer and spoken by Fredric March, traces the life of Dr. Schweitzer (with actors playing the characters), from his birth in France up to about the age of 30 when he makes the decision to go to French Equatorial Africa and build his jungle hospital. The latter half of the film encompasses a full day in the hospital-village following the 80s-plus Samaritan in his daily rounds.
- A documentary containing three historic performances in the world of dance: (1) "A Dancer's World" demonstrates the challenge and beauty of expression through movement, dance and ballet. (2) "Night Journey" is a modern choreography based on the legend of Oedipus. (3) "Appalachian Spring" is an American folk tale, with original music commissioned from Aaron Copland by Martha Graham.
- Documentary about the ethnic minority Sami people, indigenous to Norway.
- In this 1957 biography film of the jazz-great Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, he and his band tour the world as American good-will ambassadors bring jazz at its best to the people of the world. Within the film, the life of Louis Armstrong is portrayed through the music. One of the outstanding scenes in this "biography/docudrama" shows blind songwriter W. C. Handy, with tears streaming down his face, as Armstrong, backed by Leonard Bernstein leading the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, play Handy's immortal "St. Louis Blues."
- This film follows the hunting of a giraffe by four members of the Ju/'hoansi (a !Kung Bushmen tribe) over a 13-day period in the Kalahari desert. The film consists of footage shot in 1952-53 on a Smithsonian-Harvard Peabody expedition.
- Japan's first nature documentary covers the high, snow capped, Alps-like mountain ranges, the struggle for survival among those who live there, and the natural wildlife .
- The world tour of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, as described by him during his film and lantern slide lecture to schoolchildren in London's Royal Festival Hall. The tour, showing his inspection of British survey bases in Antarctica and his visits to a factory whaling ship, to islands in the South Atlantic and to Gambia, Malaya, New Guinea and Australia.
- The fabled adventures of John Lewis Burckhardt, who dared to penetrate the forbidden interior of ancient Arabia to find the lost palace of Zenobia and the Biblical cities of Baalbek, Gerasa, and Petra.
- Richard I. Evans from the University of Houston interviews Carl Gustav Jung on the subjects of the persona, introversion and extroversion, intuition and the work of J.B. Rhine.