Gorillas: Primal Contact
A&E
2002

They’ve fired our imagination…we’ve stalked them, shot them and sold them as meat…we’ve mocked them and pushed them to the very brink of extinction. Yet there is something about them that transports us to the dawn of time…an affinity. Is it because when we look into their eyes we see ourselves? This 2-hour special portrays our relationship with our largest and perhaps most charismatic primate cousin since our common ancestor first walked the earth. (Video available through aetv.com)

Living With Gorillas
National Geographic
2000

Western Lowland Gorillas are the ones we think we know, the ones we see in zoos. In truth, we know almost nothing about these elusive giants in the wild. In the dense forests of the Congo Basin, scientist Magdalena Bermejo teams up with local trackers to become the first to habituate and study the Western Lowland Gorillas.