Best Documentary Movies of 1927

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The Battles of the Coronel and Falkland Islands

3.1
7.2/10 IMDB

The film focuses on the naval warfare around the Battle of Coronel and Battle of the Falkland Islands during the First World War. It was the last in a successful series of documentary reconstructions of First World War battles by British Instructional Films made between 1921 and 1927.

Starring: Roger Maxwell, Craighall Sherry ..
Directed by: Walter Summers
Release date: 1927-10-26
Best Documentary Movies of 1927 : Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
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Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness

2.9
6.9/10 IMDB

Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.

Starring: Wild Beasts, Kru, Chantui, Natives of the Wild, The Jungle, Nah, Ladah, Bimbo the Monkey, Namul, Than ..
Directed by: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Release date: 1927-04-29
Best Documentary Movies of 1927 : Twenty-Four Dollar Island
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Twenty-Four Dollar Island

2.7
6.6/10 IMDB

A visual celebration of Manhattan and its waterways on the 300th anniversary of purchase from the local Native Americans.

Directed by: Robert J. Flaherty
Release date: 1927-12-04
4.

Hollywood the Unusual

1.8
7.9/10 IMDB

If you love beautiful and zany architecture you will marvel at the gems offered in this amusing short subject from the golden age of Hollywoodland. It happily cuts to the many residential and commercial districts showing off the 'fantasy architecture' that flourished during California's building boom.

Directed by: William Taylor
Release date: 1927-04-28
Best Documentary Movies of 1927 : Life in Hollywood No. 7
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Life in Hollywood No. 7

1.1
4.5/10 IMDB

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.

Starring: Agnes Ayres, Madge Bellamy, Lionel Belmore, Edward Connelly, Bebe Daniels, Dale Fuller, Dorothy Mackaill, Conrad Nagel, Gertrude Olmstead, Aileen Pringle ..
Release date: 1927-08-25
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Pathe News Invades General Electric Experimental Laboratory

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0.0/10 IMDB

Tesla coil tested at General Electric laboratory in New Jersey VS H. C. White holds a baton that's zapped by a Tesla Coil; he holds up an incandescent bulb that lights up; White and his assistants demonstrate various tricks with the 'lightning bolts'

Starring: H.C. White ..
Release date: 1927-01-01
7.

Tunguses

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0.0/10 IMDB

Directed by: Elizaveta Svilova
Release date: 1927-11-04
8.

General Motors Around the World

0.0
0.0/10 IMDB

Documentary about the successful business ventures of General Motors around the globe.

Release date: 1927-09-09
Best Documentary Movies of 1927 : Walt Disney Treasures: Oswald The Lucky Rabbit
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Walt Disney Treasures: Oswald The Lucky Rabbit

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0.0/10 IMDB

Release date: 1927-09-05
10.

Bees and Spiders

0.0
0.0/10 IMDB

This Devry educational short for the Museum of Natural History covers the honey bee, the field spider, and the trap door spider. Of course, it covers some of the basic knowledge that Pliny the Elder wrote about more than 2,000 years ago, and little more; there are only a few minutes of film here.

Directed by: George Clyde Fisher
Release date: 1927-11-08
Best Documentary Movies of 1927 : Life in Hollywood No. 3
11.

Life in Hollywood No. 3

0.0
4.7/10 IMDB

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.

Starring: Baby Peggy, Lon Chaney, Max Davidson, Reginald Denny, Hoot Gibson, Mary Philbin ..
Release date: 1927-08-25
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Roads in Our National Parks

0.0
0.0/10 IMDB

Government film on national park road building

Release date: 1927-06-16

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