lion Documentaries

A Spy in the Den

2000
3

A Spy in the Den (2000) is a documentary on lions which was groundbreaking at the time of release due to having used a filming technique which had never been used before. The filmmakers dispatched a covert remote-controlled camera straight into the middle of a Lion pride, the first time that such a[...]

Elsa: The Lioness That Changed The World

2010
1

Elsa The Lioness made history in the 1960’s when she became the first ever captive lion to be released back into the wild, she had been raised by game warden George Adamson and his wife Joy Adamson in Kenya. Elsa had gone to live with the Adamson’s along with her two sisters after they h[...]

Big Cats: Series 1

2018
1

  Big Cats: Series 1, a new 3-part 2018 BBC documentary series narrated by English actor Bertie Carvel (Les Misérables (2012)) which reveals new secrets about big cats using the latest developments in scientific research and filming technologies.   Part 1 follows Lions in R[...]

African Cats

2011 Unrated

African Cats is a 2011 documentary film narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, and directed by nature film maker Alaster Fothergill (Blue Planet 2001) about two different cat families living on the savannah of Africa, initially released on Earth day 2011 the film was one of the highest grossing documentary[...]

Return of the Giant Killers: Africas Lion Kings

2015
4

Lion documentary. Lions dominate the South African plains and are the number one predator for hundreds of kilometres around. In “Return of the Giant Killers: Africa's Lion Kings” we follow a pride of lions as the rainy season begins. A number of dramatic events will happen over the c[...]

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