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Virunga

Conservation is war

7.9(248)20141h 41m3

Virunga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is Africa's oldest national park, a UNESCO world heritage site, and a contested ground among insurgencies seeking to topple the government that see untold profits in the land. Among this ongoing power struggle, Virunga also happens to be the last natural habitat for the critically endangered mountain gorilla. The only thing standing in the way of the forces closing in around the gorillas: a handful of passionate park rangers and journalists fighting to secure the park's borders and expose the corruption of its enemies. Filled with shocking footage, and anchored by the surprisingly deep and gentle characters of the gorillas themselves, Virunga is a galvanizing call to action around an ongoing political and environmental crisis in the Congo.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
French
  • gorilla
  • democratic republic of the congo

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Produced in

Congo, United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereTribeca Film Festival17 Apr 2014
    • PremiereLittle Rock Film Festival17 May 2014
    • PremiereTraverse City Film Festival31 Jul 2014
    • PremiereHamptons International Film Festival10 Oct 2014
    • Digital / OTTNetflix7 Nov 2014
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereEdinburgh International Film Festival24 Jun 2014
    • Digital / OTTNetflix7 Nov 2014
  • United Arab EmiratesAE

    • PremiereAbu Dhabi Film Festival24 Oct 2014
  • CanadaCA

    • PremiereHot Docs28 Apr 2014
    • PremiereDOXA Documentary Film Festival2 May 2014
  • ChinaCN

    • PremiereShanghai International Film Festival13 Jun 2015
  • CzechiaCZ

    • PremiereOne World Film Festival5 Mar 2015
  • DenmarkDK

    • PremiereCPH:DOX6 Nov 2014
  • FinlandFI

    • PremiereHelsinki International Film Festival21 Sept 2014
  • GermanyDE

    • Digital / OTT6Netflix7 Nov 2014
  • GreeceGR

    • PremiereVovousa Festival1 Aug 2016
  • HungaryHU

    • PremiereBudapest International Documentary Festival26 Sept 2015
  • IcelandIS

    • PremiereReykjavik Film Festival27 Sept 2014

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Virunga was released on 17 April 2014.

Audience reviews

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    CinemaSerf

    8/9/2026

    7/10

    This is essentially about the sterling efforts made by the conservation rangers in the Virunga national park in what is now the DR of Congo but it quite quickly expands from their work to illustrate just how inconsequential preserving a tribe of gorillas was when armed soldiers began marauding about the place parading their astonishing array of heavy weaponry and indiscriminately wreaking death and destruction as the…

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