"There is an actual living legend," the narrator declares, before diving into an explanation of the so-called lemming suicide myth. In a turn of events, the film shows large numbers of lemmings ...

The famous scene that first promoted the misconception that lemmings A) regularly migrate and B) commit mass suicide was in fact entirely staged. First off, the film was made in Alberta ...

That is, except for the lemming—a small ... win the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. See a clip of the film below. During the cliff-diving sequence, the pocket-sized creatures ...

Here's a key shot of the lemmings from the now-infamous film: The problem? The "documentary" was faked. According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game's blog, Disney filmmakers deliberately ...

David Attenborough it ain’t. The film is now notorious for containing faked footage of something that simply doesn’t happen: lemmings committing suicide en masse. Realising that the ...

I don’t remember when I first learned that lemmings were a stand-in for people who blindly follow something without questioning it, but it wasn’t long after that when I learned where that ...

It's haunted the film genre for generations with a question ... Endless Thread's Ben Brock Johnson and Dean Russell go down the rabbit hole — lemming hole? — of deception in nature documentaries.

The documentary film was commissioned by Lemmings publisher Exient and directed by video game film producer Richard Wilcox of That Video Company. "We're absolutely thrilled to be making Lemmings ...

David Attenborough it ain't. The film is now notorious for containing faked footage of something that simply doesn't happen: lemmings committing suicide en masse. Realising that the Arctic rodents ...