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- Semi-documentary, focusing on the training young boys receive before they are sent down the mines on their first job.
- This 47-minute documentary, financed by HRH's government, won an Oscar in the special category, and most of it was later edited into a 1953 two-segment documentary called "Savage World" by the same crew of film-makers listed on this film. The story here is about an African tribe that is working to build a maternity hospital, with the aid of government officials, and against the opposition of some tribal members.
- Released as part of the studio's 20th anniversary celebration, the film shows highlights of MGM's major productions from 1924 through 1943.
- Footage from Rasmus Breistein's flight around the world.
- The film tells of the Armand Denis/Lewis Cotlow expedition that had the two men cover 22,000 miles through Tanganyika, Belgian Congo and British East Africa. The high points of their ten month trip are an impressive elephant hunt by the Pygmies of Belgian Congo, the crowning of King Mbofe Mabiashe and the capture of a rhino.
- A documentary of the Native American Navajos with details based on authentic legends and lore of the Navajo. Narrated by Edwin Jerome.
- In From winter stay to summer mountains, Wesslén follows the nomadic life of the Jokkmokkaks. The film began in 1942 and took seven years to make. Wesslén wanted to document the Sami migrations as he thought it might soon be too late. He follows them and their reindeer through different seasons in the mountain fields. He never gets close, he does not appoint a main character or create any real narrative. He only films the collective life, everyday life, the movements and the striking nature around. Tents are erected, tents are packed, reindeer are noticed, reindeer are born, it will be winter and it will be spring. Unlike the contemporary and now more famous documentary filmmaker Arne Sucksdorff, Wesslén was careful to strive for authenticity.
- The film shows newsreel items from the 1920s on through World War 2, and the Nuremberg trials for people considered responsible for war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The war scenes come from Austria, Czech Republik, France, Belgium, Poland, Russia, England, Italy, and Germany. The courtroom trials serve as a parade in which each person is identified by name, and occasionally to his sentence of responsibility denial. Those images are interspersed with home made movies by people close to Hitler and Eva Braun, mainly during their holiday stays in Berchtesgaden, Austria. The scenes of Jews and other people's mass murders are few, but impressive as they were rarely shown afterwards with the same disregard for human remains, and more so for the relentless accusations by the voice off narration, in sharp contrast with the platitude of diplomatic meetings, and the gaiety of mountain holidays. Intended as a propaganda movie by the French Resistance movement, and the Allied Cinematographic Services, the documentary is still important for the reality captured by the cinematographers of the time.