Films and programs like Nature's Half Acre

Beaver Valley

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1950 IMDB Rating: 7

Produced by Walt Disney as part of the "True-Life Adventures" series of nature documentaries (1948–60). The film depicts a young male beaver who must defend his new family against hungry predators, mi...

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Water Birds

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1952 IMDB Rating: 6.6

Water Birds is a 1952 short documentary film directed by Ben Sharpsteen. The film delves into the still waters of lagoons and marshes to the wild blue wilderness of the vast oceans, to experience the...

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Prowlers of the Everglades

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1953 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Part of the "True-Life Adventure Series"; Disney filmmakers take their cameras to Florida, not to document the swamps that would become Walt Disney World, but to capture the lives of creatures in the...

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The Olympic Elk

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1952 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Part of the "True-Life Adventure Series"; The subject of this two-reel are the elk of Washington state's Olympic Peninsula. We see these deer learning to walk, climbing downhill in a herd, and braving...

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Secrets of Life

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1956 IMDB Rating: 7.3

A feature-length documentary showing the changing world of nature, the sky, the sea, the sun, planets, insects and volcanic action. A story of nature's strange and intricate designs for survival and h...

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The Living Desert

Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1953 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Although first glance reveals little more than stones and sand, the desert is alive. Witness moving rocks, spitting mud pots, gorgeous flowers and the never-ending battle for survival between desert c...

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