Scouting in Popular Culture - Documentaries

Documentaries

• 759: Boy Scouts of Harlem (2009) US; Documentary about Boy Scout Troop 759, which meets in Harlem.
• Emmer Bereet (2007) Luxembourg; The story of Scouting in general and a group of Scouts in 2006 in Luxembourg.
• Ian Hislop's Scouting for Boys (2007) UK; The story of the book Scouting for Boys
• Jamboree (1954) US; The story of the 1953 National Scout Jamboree in Irvine, California; starring James Stewart, William Demarest, Bob Hope and Jane Powell.
• The Nuclear Boy Scout (2003) UK; A non-fiction TV special about a Boy Scout who built an actual plutonium reactor as part of his Atomic Energy Merit Badge.
• Our World: Scouting (2007) UK; A 30 minute BBC documentary following the story of two participants in the 21st World Scout Jamboree. One Scout is from Mafikeng, South Africa and the other from the UK.
• Scouting for Adventure, ongoing Outdoor Channel documentary series, US; about the values and activities of the Boy Scouts of America, showing outdoor Scouting activities such as rock climbing, backpacking, canoeing, whitewater rafting, merit badges, and campfire cooking.
• Scout's Honor (2001) US; "In a town more familiar with agriculture than activism, an unexpected alliance could change the course of Scouting forever."
• Scouts! The Rise of the World Scout Movement (1984) Canada; Using archival footage from Bettmann Archive, British Movietone, EMI Pathe, William Hillcourt, and the Library of Congress, the film traces the rise of Scouting as a world movement in the 20th century and the life of Scouting founder Robert Baden-Powell. Includes interviews with two of the original participants in Baden-Powell's 1907 Brownsea Island Scout camp and his son and daughter, along with footage of the 15th World Scout Jamboree held in Canada in 1983.
• Troop 1500 (2005) US; A Girl Scout troop in Austin, Texas specializes in girls with incarcerated mothers
• When we were Scouts (2007) UK; Celebrities discuss what Scouting and Guiding did for them, including Ronnie Corbett, Bernard Cribbins, Cherie Booth, and Betty Boothroyd. Neil Morrissey visits a Scout camp.
• Ian Hislop's Scouting for Boys (2007) UK; an assessment of Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys; one of the most successful books of the 20th century.
• Empire (2012) UK: at the end of Episode 3, Playing the Game, presenter Jeremy Paxman identifies Scouting as a positive result of the British Empire; archive footage of Robert Baden-Powell is shown and Paxman visits a present day jamboree.