Helen Keller in Her Story
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Helen Keller in Her Story (also known as The Unconquered) is an American biographical documentary about Helen Keller
Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree....

 made in 1954.

It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1955. It starred Helen Keller and used extensive footage of her visits/remembrances of Dwight Eisenhower, Martha Graham
Martha Graham
Martha Graham was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on modern visual arts, Stravinsky had on music, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture.She danced and choreographed for over seventy years...

 and others. The film was narrated by her friend, actress Katharine Cornell
Katharine Cornell
Katharine Cornell was an American stage actress, writer, theater owner and producer. She was born to American parents and raised in Buffalo, New York.Cornell is known as the greatest American stage actress of the 20th century...

, and was shot mostly in Pittsburgh.

Plot

Helen Keller is a blind and a deaf girl. Her parents hired a tutor named Anne Sullivan. Anne Sullivan once became a blind girl. The first word that she spelled using sign language is W-A-T-E-R. Some of the schools where she studied is Radcliffe University. When she died they built the Helen Keller International.
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