White Wilderness (film)

White Wilderness is a 1958 American-Canadian nature documentary produced by Walt Disney Productions. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and the Golden Bear in the 1959 Berlin Film Festival. It is noted for its propagation of the misconception of lemming suicide.

About White Wilderness (film) in brief

Summary White Wilderness (film)White Wilderness is a 1958 American-Canadian nature documentary produced by Walt Disney Productions. It is noted for its propagation of the misconception of lemming suicide. The film was directed by James Algar and narrated by Winston Hibler. It was filmed on location in Canada over the course of three years. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and the Golden Bear in the 1959 Berlin Film Festival.

White Wilderness was the inspiration for the 1986 Dead Kennedys song \”Potshot Heard Round the World\”. The scene of lemmings leaping off a cliff was used as political metaphor in a campaign ad promoting Andrew Monroe Rice, an Oklahoma candidate in the 2008 US Senate race.