Wolper directed the 1959 documentary The Race for Space, which was nominated for an Academy Award, and others including Biography (1961–63), The Making of the President 1960 (1963) and Four Days in November (1964). Wolper then sold his company to Metromedia for $3.6 million in 1964.[3] In October 1968, he paid $750,000 to leave Metromedia and took six film projects with him.[4] The pre-1968 library is owned by Cube Entertainment (formerly International Creative Exchange), while the post-1970 library (along with Wolper's production company, Wolper Productions, now known as The Wolper Organization[5][6]) has been owned by Warner Bros. since November 1976.[7] In 1965, the National Geographic Society formed a 10-year partnership with Wolper Productions where Wolper produced successful television specials for the National Geographic Society across three networks CBS, ABC and PBS.[8][9]
His company was involved in the following productions. He was a distributor of the early shows, and became an executive producer with The Race for Space in 1958.[16]
