Christian the lion - Full ending
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Uploaded on Jul 28, 2008
In 1969 a young Australian, John Rendall and his friend Ace Bourke, bought a small lion cub from Harrods pet department, which was then legal. 'Christian' was kept in the basement of a furniture shop on the Kings Road in Chelsea, the heart of the swinging sixties. Loved by all, the affectionate cub ate in a local restaurant, played in a nearby graveyard, but was growing fast...
A chance encounter with Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna led to a new life for Christian. He came to live in a huge enclosure and to sleep in a caravan at their Surrey home. Then in 1971 he was flown to Kenya, his ancestral home, and returned to the wild by lion-man George Adamson. Nine months later in 1972, John and Ace returned to Kora in Kenya. This clip is of their reunion at that time.
It was an emotional reunion: "He ran towards us, threw himself onto us, knocked us over and hugged us, with his paws on our shoulders."
John Rendall
Christian's story. Directed by Bill Travers, commentary by Virgina McKenna, founders of the Born Free Foundation.
See http://www.bornfree.org.uk for more about this story.
Christian the Lion is distributed by Beckmann Visual Publishing
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Top Comments
tombro911 4 months ago
"John? John is that you?! You son of bitch give me a hug!" Pretty sure that was the lion's reaction.
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hullinvation 4 months ago
dammit dust in my eyes again ....
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Ferminator08 5 days ago
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2RobVanDam776 1 week ago
This is clearly something that needs to be passed down from generation to generation. Very touching.
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Claire Koppenjan 1 week ago
And there is the dust in my eyes again.
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triweeklyllama 2 weeks ago
It's tough to make me cry, i'm like a rock through movies and things like that, but this video gets me every single time. It's the most beautiful thing i've ever seen and i just keep coming back here whenever i'm having a shit day. It restores my faith in the world.
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Wolvengine 3 weeks ago
01:18 nutkick, anyway I love this video, Watched it 7 times already lol :D
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ashieboy1995 4 weeks ago
mann sucks i can't hug my cat like that.
whenever i try he just thinks im crazy and runs around to my bed and rolls around
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Amin Armani 1 month ago
I really hope they made a sequel like this to Life of Pi.
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ichigo999ification 1 month ago
ermmmmm,,,nice~
old movie,,but juz a short n half of the real movie,,
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deniz kara 2 months ago
damn ninjas are cutting onions next to me.
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Bùi Thanh Tùng 2 months ago
Pi's life's ending
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