Topic: Apes

Direction Orlando von Einsiedel

Plot In the forested depths of eastern Congo lies Virunga National Park, one of the most bio-diverse places in the world and home to the last of the mountain gorillas. In...

Direction Giles Badger

Cast George McGavin

Plot Meet the primates - Your animal family as you've never seen it before.

Direction Franklin J. Schaffner

Cast Charlton Heston · Roddy McDowall · Kim Hunter · Maurice Evans

Plot Complex sociological themes run through this science-fiction classic, about three astronauts marooned on a futuristic planet where apes rule and humans are slaves... The stunned trio discovers that these highly...

Direction Brett Morgen

Plot Using a trove of unseen footage, the film tells the story of Jane Goodall's early explorations, focusing on her groundbreaking field work, her relationship with cameraman and husband Hugo van...

Direction Merian C. Cooper · Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast Fay Wray · Robert Armstrong · Bruce Cabot · Noble Johnson

Plot While shooting a jungle movie on the remote Skull Island, filmmaker Denham and his crew stumble upon a prehistoric world populated by dinosaurs and giant snakes. The most dangerous and...

Direction Carlos Baeza

Plot In "Clown Without Pity", a Krusty the Clown doll goes berserk in the Simpson home. In "King Homer", Marge is wooed by a giant ape. And final story, In "Dial...

Direction Pablo de la Chica

Plot In a brutally dangerous landscape, sanctuary becomes the most valued commodity -- both to heal and be healed. Mama Zawadi and her “babies", orphaned baby chimpanzees traumatized by the violence...

Direction Alastair Fothergill · Mark Linfield

Plot A nature documentary centered on a family of chimps living in the Ivory Coast and Ugandan rain forests.

Direction David Lickley

Plot "Born to be Wild 3D" is an inspiring story of love, dedication and the remarkable bond between humans and animals. This film documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the extraordinary...

Direction James Marsh

Plot From the Oscar-winning team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who, in the 1970s, became the focus of a landmark experiment that aimed to prove...

Direction Lorenz Knauer

Cast Jane Goodall

Plot More than 20 years ago, Dr. Jane Goodall, now 75, decided to give up her career as a primatologist, as well as her private life, in order to devote all...

Direction Kevin Lima · Chris Buck

Plot The legend of Tarzan is told in breathtaking fashion, from the loss of his parents in Africa to his adoption by a gorilla mother, Kala, to his rescue of Jane...

Direction Rupert Wyatt

Cast James Franco · Andy Serkis · Freida Pinto · Brian Cox

Plot An origin story set in present day San Francisco, where man's own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war...

Direction Mark Linfield · Alastair Fothergill

Plot A nature documentary that follows a newborn monkey and its mother as they struggle to survive within the competitive social hierarchy of the Temple Troop, a dynamic group of monkeys...

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Johnny Weissmuller · Maureen O'Sullivan · Neil Hamilton · C. Aubrey Smith

Plot Two white traders, James Parker and Harry Holt, are preparing to leave on a safari to find the fabled elephants' graveyard. The former's daughter Jane arrives unexpectedly and despite paternal...

Direction Michael Apted

Cast Sigourney Weaver · John Omirah Miluwi · Bryan Brown · Julie Harris

Plot Based on the true story of young anthropologist Dian Fossey (Sigourney Weaver) who travels to the African mountains to study the rare gorillas. In this incredible paradise which she describes...

Direction Matt Reeves

Cast Jason Clarke · Gary Oldman · Andy Serkis · Keri Russell

Plot A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile...

Direction Barbet Schroeder

Plot A documentary on the experience of psychology student Penny Patterson with Koko, a female gorilla at San Francisco Zoo with which she finally succeeded in communicating by means of sign...

Direction Friz Freleng

Plot The drunken stork loses his baby ape for Mr. and Mrs. Elvis Ape on a jungle island. So, he knocks out Bugs Bunny and delivers him instead.

Direction Thierry Ragobert

Plot A monkey raised in captivity is released into the Amazon forest to fend for itself.