1955 Documentary Movies

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The African Lion(1955)

| 1h 15min | Documentary, Kids & Family

3.6/5 (with 14 votes)

Part of Disney's True-Life Adventures series, this film focuses on the lives of lions in Africa.

Directed by James Algar

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Three directors collaborated on the Italian documentary Continente Perduto. The "lost continent" of the title is Asia, specifically Indonesia, here lovingly photographed in Ferraniacolor by Mario Craveri, Giannni Rafaldi and Franco Bernetti. Highlights include a Cantonese wedding aboard a floating junk, the annual wheat and rice harvest, the animal-sacrifice rites at the rim of a volcano, a ceremonial chariot race, and a bevy of Balinese dancers. Though there's no story to speak of, the film has the rhythm and pace of a "continuity" picture. Continente Perduto was the winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Directed by Enrico Gras, Giorgio Moser, Leonardo Bonzi

Rhythm and Blues Revue(1955)

1h 11min | Documentary, Music

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Rhythm and Blues Revue is a plotless variety show, one of several compiled for theatrical exhibition from the made-for-television short films produced by Snader and Studio Telescriptions, with newly-filmed host segments by Willie Bryant. Originally 86 minutes, the "short" version available on public domain collections and websites is missing a reel.

Directed by Leonard Reed, Joseph Kohn

Where Mountains Float(1955)

36min | Documentary

3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

The confrontation between Inuits and the industrialismen.

Directed by Bjarne Henning-Jensen

Galápagos(1955)

1h 18min | Documentary, Adventure

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Did the Peruvians cross the sea? The filming of a Norwegian archaeological expedition to the Galapagos islands in 1952, lead by Thor Heyerdahl. A continuation of the Kon-Tiki expedition.

Directed by Thor Heyerdahl, Per Høst

Wakamba!(1955)

1h 5min | Drama, Documentary

American docudrama film which takes place in Kenya. It is a dramatized presentation of some of the social customs of the Bantu people, as represented through a young native hunter, Tandu. Narrated by Paul E. Prentiss, the film was a co-production of the American Museum of Natural History and Jarville Studios.