While it may have soft-soaped on the more politically touchy aspects of Dian Fossey's mission to save Africa's mountain gorillas, Michael Apted's film still delivers a captivating portrait of a ...

Many know her from her book Gorillas in the Mist, which inspired the 1988 movie. On my visit, though, I have the place mostly to myself. As I explore the grounds, trying to imagine Fossey’s life ...

Dian Fossey was born in San Francisco in 1932 ... and used the next three years to finalize Gorillas in the Mist between lectures. Then she went on a book tour. She raised a lot of awareness ...

An Oscar-nominated Sigourney Weaver stars as Dian Fossey, the US scientist who dedicated her life to studying and protecting the mountain gorillas of Rwanda. Drama ...

We were both in a forest on Mount Visoke in Rwanda, where I have been studying gorillas in the wild. The face was familiar, not only by its features but by its impish expression; it belonged to ...