A Chance to Live
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A Chance to Live is a 1949 American short documentary film
directed by James L. Shute, produced by Richard de Rochemont
for Time Inc.
and distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox.
The film won an Academy Award at the 22nd Academy Awards
in 1950 for Documentary Short Subject
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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...
directed by James L. Shute, produced by Richard de Rochemont
Richard de Rochemont
Richard de Rochemont was an American documentary film-maker in the late 1940s, who also worked on the March of Time newsreel series....
for Time Inc.
Time Inc.
Time Inc. is a subsidiary of the media conglomerate Time Warner, the company formed by the 1990 merger of the original Time Inc. and Warner Communications. It publishes 130 magazines, most notably its namesake, Time...
and distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox.
The film won an Academy Award at the 22nd Academy Awards
22nd Academy Awards
-Awards:Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.-Multiple nominations and awards:These films had multiple nominations:*8 nominations: The Heiress*7 nominations: All the King's Men, Come to the Stable...
in 1950 for Documentary Short Subject
Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject
This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
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