The Best of Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures

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The Best of Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures is an American compilation documentary film produced by Walt Disney Productions, directed by James Algar and released by Buena Vista Distribution on October 8, 1975. The film is composed of highlights from the Academy Award winning True-Life Adventures series of 13 feature length and short subject nature documentary films produced between 1948 and 1960.

The film opens with a salute to Walt Disney, a pioneer of nature films and animal lover, followed by a compilation of excerpted segments from the True-Life Adventures film series showcasing animals of all kinds depicted in dramatic, fascinating moments of habitats from the American prairie to the North American desert, to Africa, the Amazon jungle and to the Arctic.^[1]

• Seal Island (1948)
• In Beaver Valley (1950)
• Nature's Half Acre (1951)
• The Olympic Elk (1952)
• Water Birds (1952)
• Bear Country (1953)
• Prowlers of the Everglades (1953)
• The Living Desert (1953)
• The Vanishing Prairie (1954)
• The African Lion (1955)
• Secrets of Life (1956)
• White Wilderness (1958)
• Jungle Cat (1960)

The Best of Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures was released only on VHS in the United Kingdom in the 1980s. To date, it has never been released on any physical format in the United States by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. The film is available as a digital download on Amazon Video,^[2] YouTube,^[3] Disney Movies Anywhere^[4] and iTunes.^[5]

• List of American films of 1975
• True-Life Adventures
• List of Disney live-action shorts
• List of Walt Disney Pictures films

• Official website
• The Best of Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures at IMDb
• The Best of Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures at the TCM Movie Database
• The Best of Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures at AllMovie