True-Life Adventures (film) Series of 13 nature films between 1948 and 1960, including 7 featurettes (Seal Island, Beaver Valley, Nature’s Half Acre, The Olympic Elk, Water Birds, Bear Country, Prowlers of the Everglades) and 6 features (The Living Desert, The Vanishing Prairie, The African Lion, Secrets of Life, White Wilderness, Jungle Cat); 8 of them won Academy Awards®. See also Seal Island for more history of the series. A new series, called New True Life Adventures, began airing in syndication in February 2000.
