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  • Grace Horth
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The Lion King. Dir. Jon Favreau. Walt Disney Pictures and Fairview Entertainment. 2019.
The Lion King. Dir. Jon Favreau. Walt Disney Pictures and Fairview Entertainment. 2019. 150 150 Grace Horth

‘There’s a stampede, in the pride lands’, Zazu’s memorable line is word-for-word identical to the 1994 animation. But where the animation focused on a simple plot, Jon Favreau’s recreation with…

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  • Eleanor Haigh
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Two Brothers . Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud. Universal Studios. 2004.
Two Brothers . Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud. Universal Studios. 2004. 150 150 Eleanor Haigh

ean-Jacques Annaud transports us to the richly beautiful Cambodian jungle in the early 1920s , where two tiger cubs, Sangha and Kumal, are born to their stable and loving family…

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  • Harriet Brodie
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Duma. Dir. Caroll Ballard. Warner Bros Pictures. 2005.
Duma. Dir. Caroll Ballard. Warner Bros Pictures. 2005. 150 150 Harriet Brodie

Duma. Dir. Caroll Ballard. Warner Bros. Pictures. 2005. Duma follows the narrative of a young boy named Xan embarking on an epic adventure to release his pet cheetah, Duma, to the…

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  • Loreen Nennstiel
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Fly Away Home . Dir. Carroll Ballard. Columbia Pictures, Sandollar, The Saul Zaentz Film Center. 1996.
Fly Away Home . Dir. Carroll Ballard. Columbia Pictures, Sandollar, The Saul Zaentz Film Center. 1996. 150 150 Loreen Nennstiel

Fly Away Home focuses on 13-year-old Amy Alden who has just lost her mother due to a car accident. She has to move to her dad Tom, whom she hadn’t seen…

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  • Loreen Nennstiel
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Fly Away Home . Dir. Carroll Ballard. Columbia Pictures. 1996.
Fly Away Home . Dir. Carroll Ballard. Columbia Pictures. 1996. 150 150 Loreen Nennstiel

Fly Away Home focuses on 13-year-old Amy Alden who has just lost her mother due to a car accident. She has to move to her dad Tom, whom she hadn’t seen…

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  • Simon Coleman
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Tarzan. Dir. Kevin Lima, Chris Buck. Disney. 1999.
Tarzan. Dir. Kevin Lima, Chris Buck. Disney. 1999. 150 150 Simon Coleman

Tarzan-Two Worlds Tarzan is best characterised by the title of the film’s opening song Two Worlds, sang by Phil Collins. This is the story of flora and fauna, represented by gorillas, colliding…

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  • Amelia Eckersley
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White Fang. Dir. Randal Kleiser. Buena Vista Studios. 1991.
White Fang. Dir. Randal Kleiser. Buena Vista Studios. 1991. 150 150 Amelia Eckersley

Baring his teeth to a Grizzly Bear on its hind legs, White Fang- a hybridised wolf-dog, forsakes his life to defend a young boy, Jack Conroy. Jack’s endures a perilous…

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  • Cristyn Lloyd
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Milking the Rhino. Dir. David E. Simpson. Kartemquin Films. 2009.
Milking the Rhino. Dir. David E. Simpson. Kartemquin Films. 2009. 150 150 Cristyn Lloyd

David E. Simpson’s 2009 documentary Milking the Rhino is a groundbreaking, astonishing story of two cattle farming cultures, the Maasai of Kenya and Ovahimba of Namibia, caught between trying to…

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  • Cristyn Lloyd
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Never Cry Wolf. Dir. Carrol Ballard. Buena Vista Distribution. 1983.
Never Cry Wolf. Dir. Carrol Ballard. Buena Vista Distribution. 1983. 150 150 Cristyn Lloyd

Carroll Ballard’s 1983 adaptation of Farley Mowat’s 1963 dramatised autobiography Never Cry Wolf is as intricate and astonishingly baffling as it is brilliant. The film tells the story of biologist…

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