Mind-Blowing Films That Are Based on Real People

Gorillas in the Mist

Sigourney Weaver plays Diane Fossey in this 1988 biopic about the author behind the book "Gorillas in the Mist". The book is a documentation of the primatologist Jane Goodall, written by a woman named Diane Fossey, while Goodall took on the western world's intentions to destroy the rainforest, poach endangered animals for their fur, and extinguish the lives of beautiful and intelligent animals.

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