Have you seen the Disney documentary on Lemmings called White Wilderness? No...?

Well do you know that Lemmings commit mass suicide in their migrations, by jumping off cliffs...? Oh! You do know this one!

Well. It's not true.

In 1958, Disney produced a documentary called White Wilderness. It was all about lemmings.

What they ate, how they lived, what they did to survive, etc.
The scenes also showed the lemmings breathtaking environment. Full of mountains, trees, grass, and cliffs.

During the final scene of the documentary, lemmings ran following one another...

Over the edge of a cliff and into the cold waters below. Where if they didn't die from the fall, they sure would from the water's sub-zero temperature.

The narrator proclaims, as the lemmings fall, "They've become victims of an obsession - a one-track thought: Move on! Move on!"

The lemmings did have a migration obsession. But it wasn't so bad that they resorted to jumping off cliffs.

So why did it show them obviously jumping in the documentary?

Well they weren't jumping....

They were pushed.

Yes, you read right. They were pushed. Off a cliff. By the production crew.

While filming the crew were directed to push the lemmings off a cliff. To make the documentary more "dramatic".

FACT: Lemmings were pushed off a cliff to make the documentary, White Wilderness, seem more dramatic.

QUESTION: Did they jump or were they pushed?

WHAT I THINK: Undoubtedly they were pushed.

Oh and by the way, the documentary won an Oscar.