TV Show Details
Air Date:December 6th, 2017
Last Air Date:December 20th, 2017
Network:National Geographic
Status:Ended
Genres:Documentary
Original Language:English
Dian Fossey: Secrets in the Mist on the Web:Official Website
Dian Fossey: Secrets in the Mist (2017)
National Geographic
Miniseries
Audience Score
Plot
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.
