Lowell Thomas Movies

Designed to introduce the then-new widescreen process Cinerama, audiences experience the roller coaster at Rockaways' Playland, the temple dance from...

State of the American people's teeth during the Great Depression.

An educational one-reeler for elementary aged children demonstrating the concept of American free-enterprise. The film utilizes wooden toys designed...

Various celebrities and news-media figures discuss the polarization of politics between the Western Allies of the United States and the Soviet bloc,...

In “Search for the Titanic”, Orson Welles takes viewers into a massive expedition attempting to locate the remains of the famous...

An expedition is sent into the rugged Australian outback to search for a lost white woman.

A documentary outlining railroad work and the effects on the lives impacted by the iron horse

A look at what goes on in China.

Filmed in 1949 when Lowell Thomas and Lowell Thomas Jr. took a journey to Tibet before the Chinese had moved in. It shows Tibet as it was then and,...

This 1946 entry in the "Movietone Adventures" series of shorts was in Technicolor when originally released. Narrated by Lowell Thomas, it is a trip...

Hosted by 'Lowell Thomas' this short illustrates the enterprising nature of the American business and its expansion through time.

An airborne documentary following the Shippee-Johnson expedition into the Andes..

“Where are tomorrow’s opportunities? What’s ahead in America for you and your children?” asks narrator Lowell Thomas. Looking...

Prominent scientists Dr. William Beebe and Otis Barton, using the Bathyspere invented by Barton, descend several thousand feet to the ocean floor off...

An animator is in the process of creating a series of three drawings of prominent historical figures. As the animator goes about his drawings, a...

Captain Wallace Casewell Jr., chief of police of Panama City, Florida, is the star of Killers of the Sea. Appointing himself protector of all Gulf of...

Watson crafted a dazzling visual ballet that stands on its own as an aesthetically rewarding and educationally inspiring tour of the massive Kodak...

A documentary newsreel (in Universal's "Going Places" series) offering an in-depth glimpse into the Universal/Walter Lantz animation studio,...

The film discusses the fascinating world of color perception, particularly from the perspective of various creatures, including fish and lobsters. It...

Lowell Thomas narrates a look at progress in American history.