Dian Fossey: Secrets In The Mist
TV Show · Documentary · Biography

Dian Fossey changed the way people view gorillas. She told the world how they lived and dedicated years to fighting a battle against encroaching gorilla poachers. Her obsession may have ended up killing her. Three decades after Fossey was murdered in a remote mountain cabin in Rwanda, National Geographic looks back at her life and legacy, from childhood and her early days researching in Congo, through to her arrival in Rwanda, where she spent 18 years studying and protecting the mountain gorilla population. Featured across three parts are extensive use of archival footage and still images, interviews with people who knew and worked with Dian -- including Wayne McGuire, the man convicted in absentia of her murder -- and the primatologist's own writings. The series is narrated by Sigourney Weaver, who won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Fossey in the 1988 film `Gorillas in the Mist'.

2017 · 47m
Starring Sigourney Weaver
Director Zara Hayes

Season 1

  • EPISODE 1
    Gorilla Girl
    At dawn on December 27, 1985, cries of horror cut through the early morning mist on a mountainside in Rwanda. Workers gathered outside a corrugated iron cabin. Inside, one of the greatest names in wildlife conservation lay dead, killed in a brutal machete attack.
    44 min
  • EPISODE 2
    Dark Side of The Mountain
    Days after the slaughter of Dian Fossey's favourite gorilla, Digit, Sir David Attenborough arrives to find her coughing blood but insisting on taking him to film the gorillas in what becomes one of TV's most famous sequences.
    44 min
  • EPISODE 3
    Murder on the Mountain
    Everyone who knew Dian Fossey was shocked by her murder, but not surprised. She'd made many enemies. An inept police investigation provided few clues, but eventually someone was charged: gorilla researcher Wayne Maguire.
    44 min

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Cast & Crew

  • Sigourney Weaver
    Narrator
  • Zara Hayes
    Director
  • James Marsh
    Producer
  • D‌C
    Dick Colthurst
    Producer

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Dian Fossey: Secrets In The Mist

Documentary

Dian Fossey changed the way people view gorillas. She told the world how they lived and dedicated years to fighting a battle against encroaching gorilla poachers. Her obsession may have ended up killing her. Three decades after Fossey was murdered in a remote mountain cabin in Rwanda, National Geographic looks back at her life and legacy, from childhood and her early days researching in Congo, through to her arrival in Rwanda, where she spent 18 years studying and protecting the mountain gorilla population. Featured across three parts are extensive use of archival footage and still images, interviews with people who knew and worked with Dian -- including Wayne McGuire, the man convicted in absentia of her murder -- and the primatologist's own writings. The series is narrated by Sigourney Weaver, who won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Fossey in the 1988 film `Gorillas in the Mist'.

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National Geographic
Released
2017
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