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Based on the true story of anthropologist Dian Fossey who travels to the African mountains to study the rare gorillas. Her interest in the mountain gorillas becomes an obsession and she risks her life to protect them from poachers and animal traders and ultimate extinction. Stars Sigourney Weaver and Bryan Brown.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
325027
Language
English
Audience classification
MA
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Biographical films
Animals & Wildlife → Fossey, Dian
Animals & Wildlife → Wildlife conservation
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Wildlife conservation
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)