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The People & Places series is a collection of short subject documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

s produced by Walt Disney Productions roughly between the years 1953 and 1960. The entry series was filmed in CinemaScope and filming location were countries around the world the Disney staff visited.

Films in the series

#	Film name	Date	Director
1	The Alaskan Eskimo The Alaskan Eskimo The Alaskan Eskimo is a 1953 short documentary film produced by Walt Disney. It won an Academy Award at the 26th Academy Awards in 1954 for Documentary Short Subject.-External links:...	February 18, 1953
2	Siam	December 24, 1954
3	Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....	June 16, 1955
4	Men Against the Arctic Men Against the Arctic Men Against the Arctic is a 1955 short documentary film directed by Winston Hibler. It won an Academy Award in 1956 for Documentary Short Subject. It was also entered into the 6th Berlin International Film Festival.-External links:*...	??, 1955
5	Sardinia Sardinia Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands.The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *sard[],...	November 15, 1956
6	Disneyland U.S.A.	December 20, 1956
7	Samoa Samoa Samoa , officially the Independent State of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It became independent from New Zealand in 1962. The two main islands of Samoa are Upolu and one of the biggest islands in...	December 25, 1956
8	The Blue Man of Morocco	February 14, 1957
9	Lapland Lapland (region) Lapland is a region in northern Fennoscandia, largely within the Arctic Circle. It streches across Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula . On the North it is bounded by the Barents Sea, on the West by the Norwegian Sea and on the East by the White Sea...	February 14, 1957
10	Portugal Portugal Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...	December 25, 1957	November 6, 1956
11	Wales Wales Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...	June 10, 1958
12	Scotland	June 11, 1958
13	Ama Girls Ama Girls Ama Girls is a 1958 American short documentary film produced by Ben Sharpsteen. It won an Academy Award at the 31st Academy Awards in 1959 for Documentary Short Subject. It is also known as Japan Harvests the Sea....	July 09, 1958
14	Seven Cities of Antarctica	December 25, 1958
15	Cruise of the Eagle	March 19, 1959
16	Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...	April 06, 1960
17	The Danube	April 27, 1960

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