Best tv shows like Born Free
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Plot Summary:
The adventures of two married game wardens in Kenya. George Adamson and Diana Muldaur live with their adopted lioness Elsa the Lioness, where they protect the animals in the surrounding area from all sorts of danger, both natural and human.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: wild
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Alaska Kid (1993)
Plot Summary:
During the gold rush days, a young man with his best friend go through lots of interesting adventures in Alaska from races to dangerous trips.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Adventure
Country: Germany, Poland, Russia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags:
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A Son of Man (2018)
Plot Summary:
Pipe is invited to join his mysterious father on a quest for the lost Inca gold. But as they journey deeper into the jungle, he understands that they cannot escape the family demons that are traveling with them.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Ecuador
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: twisted
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The Great Elephant Escape (1995)
Plot Summary:
Two young boys help an elephant escape from an African animal orphanage when he is bought by a wealthy American. The trio dodge poachers, the police and lions on a journey they'll never forget.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Ivory Hunters (1990)
Plot Summary:
Ruthless elephant killers are confronted by determined conservationists.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Tusks (1988)
Plot Summary:
Roger Singh is an animal poacher with hate in his heart, and revenge on his mind. Embittered by a recent stint in prison, Singh returns to the forbidden ivory trade only to lock horns with new game warden and former friend Mark Smith, whose testimony years before helped put Singh away.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Mister Moses (1965)
Plot Summary:
A con man on the run in Africa aids a minister's daughter by helping lead a local tribe to their new homeland.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Animal Atlas (2004)
Plot Summary:
Animal Atlas is produced by Longneedle Entertainment, LLC, a subsidiary of Bellum Entertainment Group. Animal Atlas is a 30-minute educational wildlife show that "takes children on a tour of discovery, uncovering the secrets of how animals live and thrive. Young viewers meet animals from the familiar to the astounding, and the domesticated to the wild, including the diverse creatures of the African savanna, the finned and flippered of the big deep, and the colorful cast of the equatorial rainforest". Atlas began in 2004 for its first season in national syndication and will be going on its tenth year of national syndication during the 2013-2014 season. As of January 2013, Bellum will have produced over 230 high definition episodes of Animal Atlas and fourteen home entertainment DVD titles about animals.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: educational, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1977)
Plot Summary:
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams is an American television series starring Dan Haggerty that aired on NBC from February 9, 1977 to May 12, 1978.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: wild
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Sir Francis Drake (1961)
Plot Summary:
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: baroque
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Born Free: A New Adventure (1996)
Plot Summary:
Another thrilling adventure for Elsa the lioness as she works her magic on two teenagers struggling with changes in their life.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Luana, the Girl Tarzan (1968)
Plot Summary:
A girl searching a forbidding jungle for her missing father stumbles upon a savage jungle girl.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Adventure
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exotic
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Gentle Ben (1967)
Plot Summary:
Gentle Ben is an American family series that aired on CBS from September 10, 1967 to April 27, 1969. The series follows the adventures, in the Florida Everglades, of a game warden, Tom Wedloe, his wife Ellen, his son Mark and Ben the grizzly bear.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, wild
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Escape from Angola (1976)
Plot Summary:
Adventure - Moving to the unspoiled terrain of Africa was a risk the Mallory family survived. This family of animal trainers soon find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives after their truck breaks down deep in the African bush. They split up to search for help, only to find themselves face to face with some of the most dangerous wild animals in Africa: crocodiles, cobras and other deadly beasts. - Stan Brock, Anne Collings, Steven Tors.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Mistress of the Apes (1979)
Plot Summary:
Jenny Neumann takes a group of men into the jungles of Kenya to look for her husband, and instead finds a tribe of caveman-looking "Near-Men" who all seem terribly attracted to her beautiful blond hair.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychotronic, independent film
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The Lion (1962)
Plot Summary:
Young Tina lives with her mother and stepfather on a wildlife reserve in Kenya. While her stepfather believes this is a wonderful environment for her to grow up in, her mother becomes increasingly concerned by her behaviour. These concerns are reinforced when it is revealed that her daughter's best friend in the whole world is a fully grown lion. Worried that her daughter may be turning into a savage, she sends for her former husband, Tina's biological father, in the hope that he can take her back to civilization (in this case rural Connecticut). But it seems as though Tina's mother wants something more than a civilized upbringing for her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: romantic drama
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To Walk with Lions (1999)
Plot Summary:
Drama based loosely on the final years of Kenya game warden and lion-raiser George Adamson's life. An unofficial sequel to 'Born Free' (1966) and 'Living Free' (1972), which also dramatised the life of Adamson, this film picks up the life of George (Richard Harris) on the African wildlife preserve he runs with the help of his brother Terrence (Ian Bannen). When drifter Tony Fitzjohn (John Michie) arrives to work for the old men he initially takes poorly to the task, almost savaged by a lion on his first day and on the verge of leaving when he hears that his predecessor was killed in a similar incident. The arrival of a lion cub that Fitzjohn must care for and raise changes everything. Soon he finds himself helping the brothers in their fight to save lions - and, ultimately, the park itself - from the poachers, soldiers and corrupt government officials that threaten them.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, UK, Kenya
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, serious, realistic
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Tarzan in Manhattan (1989)
Plot Summary:
Tarzan goes to New York to rescue the chimp Cheetah, who has been captured by an evil animal experimenter. There, he teams up with Jane, a cab driver and daughter of an ex-cop private eye, who help Tarzan free Cheetah and his friends.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Legends of the Hidden Temple (2016)
Plot Summary:
Three siblings who break away from a lackluster temple tour in a jungle finds themselves immersed in a real-life mission comprised of obstacles that they must complete in order to escape alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, exciting
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Sheena (2000)
Plot Summary:
Sheena is an American action-adventure/fantasy television series which was produced for first-run syndication from 2000 to 2002. Based upon the comic book character Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, which previously spawned a popular 1950s TV series of the same title, the 2000s series updated the character to the 21st century. There were two seasons, containing 22 and 13 episodes. It starred Gena Lee Nolin and John Allen Nelson and was developed for television by Douglas Schwartz and Steven L. Sears. In this version Sheena was given the mystical ability to transform into almost any jungle animal. Several episodes from the first season are available to view for free in Minisode format on Crackle, as well as on Hulu. Sheena's parents were archaeologists who died in the jungle when she was about six years old, leaving their daughter Shirley Hamilton. She was taken in by Kali, a local Shamaness of a tribe who brought her up, and five years ago she was taught how to morph into animals and birds, acquiring their abilities, even flight. Further, she became a mythical creature called "The Darachna" who relies on people' fear of the unknown. For this she covers herself in a dark liquid mud which allows her to be largely unseen in the low light of the jungle, and with more than normal strength, agility and speed, and armed with a pair of gloves with bone claws, she is a formidable one woman fighting force. She does kill sometimes.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, sexy, wild
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Lost in Africa (1994)
Plot Summary:
A young American and a young English woman are kidnapped by a tribe in Africa. They manage to escape but the leader of the tribe is killed in the process. There's a whole jungle between them and civilization and chief's son wants revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Living Free (1972)
Plot Summary:
When Elsa's three mischievious cubs begin wreaking havok on the nearby villages, Joy and her husband are forced to move them hundreds of miles to a game preserve.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, independent film, wild
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Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)
Plot Summary:
Paleontologist and her husband discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa, try to protect them from hunters who want to capture them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Côte d'Ivoire
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, unusual plot structure, humorous, sweet, entertaining, weird, idiotic, ridiculous, cult film, awful
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The Last Safari (1967)
Plot Summary:
A hunter stalks a killer elephant.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965)
Plot Summary:
When a native village is apparently terrorized by a Lion, the local sergeant enlists the help of a veterinarian working at a nearby animal study center. It is soon discovered that the Lion has a unique problem, it has double vision due to the fact that it is cross eyed and therefore cannot hunt. The Lion is taken back to the study center and is soon adopted by the vet's daughter. Meanwhile, a dangerous criminal is planning to capture young Gorillas and sell them on the black market.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Mia and the White Lion (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, Germany, South Africa, Switzerland, Monaco, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, sincere, scenic, inspirational, exciting
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Cheetah (1989)
Plot Summary:
An American boy and girl, spending six months in Kenya with their scientist parents adopt a cheetah, only to realize that they must set it loose so that it can learn to hunt and be free. However, when the animal is captured by poachers planning to race it against greyhounds, the two city kids, together with a young African goat herder they befriended, head off into the wild to rescue the cheetah.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, romantic, clever, touching, unusual plot structure, sweet, melancholic, twist ending
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Born Free (1966)
Plot Summary:
Born Free (1966) is an Open Road Films Ltd./Columbia Pictures feature film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, a real-life couple who raised an orphaned lion cub to adulthood, and released her into the wilds of Kenya.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Family, History
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, non fiction, uplifting, feel good, serious, realistic, crying, light
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Tarzan (1966)
Plot Summary:
Tarzan is a series that aired on NBC from 1966 – 1968. The series portrayed Tarzan as a well-educated character, one who, tired of civilization, had returned to the jungle where he had been raised. The show retained many of the trappings of the classic movie series, including Cheeta, while excluding other elements, such as Jane, as part of the "new look" for the fabled apeman that producer Sy Weintraub had introduced in previous motion pictures starring Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, and Mike Henry. CBS aired repeat episodes the program during the summer of 1969.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: vintage, wild
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Duma (2005)
Plot Summary:
An orphaned cheetah becomes the best friend and pet of a young boy living in South Africa.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sweet, sentimental, touching, captivating, inspirational, sad, atmospheric, realistic, semi serious, romantic
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The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Plot Summary:
Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, scenic, dramatic, natural horror, atmospheric, anamorphic, serious