Churchill Films aka Churchill Media was a producer and distributor of direct-to-video/educational films founded by Robert Churchill (1902-1998)[1] and Sy Wexler (1916–2005)[2] in 1948 as Churchill Wexler Film Productions.[3] They have produced The Mouse and the Motorcycle (1986) based on the 1965 book by Beverly Cleary and many other award-winning children's films.[4]
Churchill Films was acquired by American Educational Products in 1994.[3] The Churchill Films catalog is now part of Discovery Education.[5]
In December 2009, The Jungle (1967), a film distributed by Churchill Films in 16mm for the educational film market, was named to the National Film Registry.[6]
^"Obituaries - Jan. 17, 1998".
^"Sy Wexler". Retrieved November 27, 2021.
^ ab"Robert Churchill; Educational Film Producer". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
^Website to Weston Woods Books and Films, successor to Churchill Films
^Alexander, Geoff (January 10, 2014). "Churchill Films". Academic Films for the Classroom: A History. McFarland. pp. 76–77. ISBN 978-0-7864-6000-7 – via Google Books.
^"Thriller and 24 Other Films Named to National Film Registry", Associated Press via Yahoo News (December 30, 2009) Archived January 6, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
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