Jane Goodall - Beauty and the Beasts

The read

It runs a compact 1h 0m.

Synopsis

Documentary about Jane Goodall, a young secretary from Bournemouth with no scientific qualifications, who entered a remote forest in Africa in 1960 and became accepted by a group of wild chimpanzees. Her discoveries transformed our understanding of them and challenged the way we define ourselves as human beings by showing just how close we are as a species to our closest living relatives. In the film, we discover the person behind the myth, what motivates her and the personal cost her life's work has exacted from her.

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Key crew

• Jeremy BristowDirector

Cast

• Jane GoodallSelf
• David AttenboroughSelf
• Desmond MorrisSelf

Themes