An Oscar-winning Disney nature film convinced generations that lemmings hurl themselves off cliffs in acts of mass suicide, ...
The 1958 nature documentary White Wilderness is one of several films the House of Mouse is less than proud of. [The films] hold up a mirror to nature, but the mirror isn’t always flat and clear.
The Endless Thread team reveals how a deceptive Disney documentary from the 1950s shaped the way we think about lemmings and established the nature documentary style. Ben Brock Johnson and Dean ...