True-Life Adventures


True-Life Adventures is a series of fourteen full length and short subject documentary films produced by Walt Disney Productions roughly between the years 1948 and 1960. The series won eight Academy Awards for the studio including three Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature awards for The Living Desert, The Vanishing Prairie and White Wilderness, and five Best Two Reel Live Action Short awards for Seal Island, In Beaver Valley, Nature's Half Acre, Water Birds, and Bear Country.
It inspired a daily panel comic strip that was distributed from 1955 to 1973 and drawn by George Wheeler. Several of the films were adapted in comic book format as one shots in the Dell Comics Four Color series.
The films were among the earliest production experience for Roy E. Disney. This film series was the launching pad for Disney's new distributor, Buena Vista International. TV episodes are from Disney's anthology TV series.
In 2007, Disney established a new nature film label called Disneynature.
Various natural scientists have studied the contents of these films and found that various sequences in them were staged and fabricated, such as the lemmings' mass suicide in White Wilderness.

Films

Educational shorts

The following shorts were edited out of the other shorts/films/episodes for educational purposes - either a fragment was exported out of a longer film or two or more sequences were edited together from more than two or more different films to form a "new" film. Thus they are not included on the Legacy DVDs.
Films made up of stock footage from two or more Disney nature films and thus not listed with respective original film above:
On October 8, 1975, Disney theatrically released The Best of Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures, a full-length motion picture documentary derived from 13 of the acclaimed True-Life Adventures series written and directed by James Algar, executive produced by Ron Miller and narrated by Winston Hibler.

Home media

VHS releases

Australian & New Zealand releases

All of the True-Life Adventures have been released on DVD over four discs as part of the Walt Disney Legacy Collection which launched December 5, 2006.

Volume 1: Wonders of the World

DISC ONE
DISC TWO
Bonus Features
DISC ONE
DISC TWO
Bonus Features
DISC ONE
DISC TWO
Bonus Features
DISC ONE
DISC TWO
Bonus Features