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Dian Fossey: Secrets in the Mist (2017)

1 season3 episodes43 min per episode★ 7.6 · 231 votes

• Documentary

Dian Fossey's life story 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. Through extensive and rarely seen archival footage, dozens of Fossey’s letters, interviews with friends and colleagues, and narration by Sigourney Weaver, the event series explores Fossey’s murder and the investigation and trial of her research student Wayne McGuire, who was found guilty in absentia of her murder by the Rwandan courts.

First aired

December 6, 2017

Last episode

December 20, 2017

Network

National Geographic

Country of origin

United States