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 ...

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 ...

In 1988, Fossey’s best-selling book Gorillas In The Mist was made into a highly-rated movie depicting the daily lives of mountain gorillas as well as their tragic killing by the poachers ...

two years after her book was published. Fossey’s was one of the longest-running studies of primates in the wild, and Gorillas in the Mist remains an invaluable glimpse into the lives of the ...