Passport to Nowhere

{{short description|1947 film}}

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| name = Passport to Nowhere

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| producer = Frederic Ullman Jr.

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| narrator = Dwight Weist

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| distributor = RKO Pictures

| released = {{film date|1947}}

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| country = United States

| language = English

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Passport to Nowhere is a 1947 American short documentary film produced by Frederic Ullman Jr. as part of RKO Pictures' documentary series This Is America. Its subject was European refugees after World War II.{{Cite journal| doi = 10.2307/1225493| issn = 0009-7101| volume = 12| issue = 2| pages = 22–38| last = Barsam| first = Richard Meran| title = "This Is America": Documentaries for Theaters, 1942-1951| journal = Cinema Journal| accessdate = 2021-04-10| date = 1973| url = http://www.jstor.org/stable/1225493| jstor = 1225493}} It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/300222/Passport-To-Nowhere/details |title=NY Times: Passport to Nowhere |access-date=November 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015135420/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/300222/Passport-To-Nowhere/details |archive-date=October 15, 2012 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1948 |title=The 20th Academy Awards (1948) Nominees and Winners |date=October 5, 2014 |access-date=May 29, 2019 |publisher=Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)}} The star of the film is Dwight Weist, who was the narrator.{{Citation |title=Passport to Nowhere |type=Documentary, Short |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039697/ |access-date=2024-03-14 |others=Dwight Weist |publisher=RKO Radio Pictures}}