VHS : Christian the Lion

Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303052496
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6303052495
Label: Hollywood Select Video
Manufacturer: Hollywood Select Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hollywood Select Video
Release Date: April 01, 1994
Running Time: 87 minutes
Studio: Hollywood Select Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1976
Sales Rank: 546

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- Search out a copy of this
Finally finding an audience on You-tube, there is a reason this is a number one bestseller. There are DVD versions out there, just google search and you can find one. Great heartfelt story.

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- Beautiful
I have only just ordered this tape for my own, but I have watched the whole thing on you-tube. It's a beautiful story. Touching and heartfelt. I highly recommend seeing this.

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- Never have i seen such love displayed by "ferocious beasts".
In the same mold as 'Born Free', this documentary style film, to me, is much better. It's about a 3rd generation London Zoo lion named 'Christian', that acts like a human...and his eventual introduction into a life with wild lions in Africa. Much of the film centers around George Adamson, and how he forms a pride of lions out of rehabilitated, orphan cubs. Which is just amazing.
Never have i seen such love displayed by "ferocious beasts". 'Christian' is a cat like no other. He will surely ... Read More

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- Absolutely beautiful true story of human-animal relationship
This is a documentary, filmed around 1970, the true and undoctored story of another lion that Born Free's George Adamson returned to life in the wild.

The backstory is that Christian was separated from his parents at an early age and put up for sale in a London department store. Christian's parents were zoo lions, the father came from the Rotterdam zoo and the mother from Jerusalem, and they lived at the Ilfracombe zoo. When they had cubs, the zoo sold them, and two cubs went to the department ... Read More

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- This is a true story and you are there as it unfolds.
If you liked the book and movie Born Free and would like to see the real George Adamson in a movie, as himself, then do not miss this entertaining and touching movie filmed in Kenya. The stars of the movie Born Free became close friends with George Adamson during the making of Born Free and they returned to make this this wonderful film. This is a true story, filmed as it happened. A London born Lion bought in a department store is flown to Africa to be introduced to a life in the wild by conservationist ... Read More

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