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    Gorillas in the Mist

    PG-131988 · Docudrama · 2h 9m

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  1. Gorillas in the Mist [a] is a 1988 American biographical drama film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay by Anna Hamilton Phelan and a story by Phelan and Tab Murphy. The film is based a book of the same name by Dian Fossey and the article by Harold T. P. Hayes. It stars Sigourney Weaver as naturalist Dian Fossey and Bryan Brown as ...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Dian_FosseyDian Fossey - Wikipedia

    Dian Fossey ( / daɪˈæn / dy-AN; January 16, 1932 – c. December 26, 1985) was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her murder in 1985. [1] She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by ...

  3. Oct 7, 1988 · Gorillas in the Mist: Directed by Michael Apted. With Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, John Omirah Miluwi. The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.

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    • Biography, Drama
    • Michael Apted
    • 1988-10-07
  4. Gorillas in the Mist PG-13 Released Sep 23, 1988 2h 9m Drama List 84% Tomatometer 19 Reviews 75% Audience Score 25,000+ Ratings This film is an adaptation of wildlife expert Dian Fossey's ...

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    • Michael Apted
    • PG-13
    • Sigourney Weaver
  5. Dec 7, 2017 · Learn how Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey changed how we saw primates and their conservation challenges in two new documentaries. See how they approached chimpanzees and gorillas, and how they faced social and political pressures.

    • 2 min
    • Nsikan Akpan
  6. Much like when I reviewed Jane Goodall's In the Shadow of Man, I quickly fell in love with the gorillas that Dian Fossey describes in exquisite detail in her book Gorillas in the Mist. (You may have heard of it.) Dr. Fossey moved to the Virungas of Africa (Zaire, Uganda, and Rwanda) to study the mountain gorillas that lived there.

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  8. Sep 13, 2016 · Learn how Jane Goodall and other conservationists are working to protect gorillas and other great apes from extinction. Read about the threats, challenges and successes of their efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and beyond.

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