Born Free

"From The Pages Of The Beloved Best Seller... A Motion Picture To Delight All The World!"

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Ratings & Reviews

7.2/10

7,137 votes

88/100

Fresh

6.8/10

128 votes

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Awards & Recognition

Critical acclaim and industry honors

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Wins

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Nomination

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Academy Awards

🏆 1 win

Won

Best Original Score

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Other Awards

🏆 2 wins

Won

Genesis

National Board of Review: Top Ten Films

Popularity Trend(Wikipedia)

60-Day Views

24.3K

Daily Avg

405

7-Day Trend

-4%

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Wikipedia

Based On

Born Free

literary work

Filming Locations

Where this movie was filmed

Kenya

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Story Setting

Set In

Kenya

Extended Crew & Production

Cinematography

Kenneth Talbot

Film Editing

Don Deacon

Music / Score

John Barry

Production Companies

Shepperton Studios

Distributors

Columbia PicturesNetflix

Technical Specifications

Color

color

Format

video on demand

Where to Watch Born Free

Available in 73 countries

Country	Stream	Free	Rent	Buy
United States of America	FlixFling, TCM	The Roku Channel, YouTube Free	Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, FlixFling	Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, FlixFling
United KingdomU	—	—	Apple TV Store, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, Sky Store, YouTube	Apple TV Store, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, Sky Store, YouTube
Canada	FlixFling	—	Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, FlixFling, YouTube, Amazon Video	Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, FlixFling, YouTube, Amazon Video
Australia	—	—	Apple TV Store, Amazon Video	Apple TV Store, Amazon Video
India	—	—	Apple TV Store, Amazon Video	Apple TV Store

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Age Ratings by Country

United KingdomU

JapanG

HU18

IrelandG

ItalyT

NetherlandsAL

SwedenBtl

Production

Directors

James Hill, Tom McGowan

Writers

Lester Cole, Don Black, Joy Adamson

Production Companies

High RoadOpen Road Films

Cast

Virginia McKenna

Joy Adamson

Bill Travers

George Adamson

Geoffrey Keen

Kendall

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Peter Lukoye

Nuru

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Omar Chambati

Makkede

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Bill Godden

Sam

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Robert S. Young

James

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Bryan Epsom

Baker

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Geoffrey Best

Watson

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Robert Cheetham

Ken

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Surya Patel

Doctor

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Elsa

Lion Cub/Lioness (uncredited)

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parent child relationshipfreedomlionanimal attackriflegame wardenlionesskenyalion cubanimal rightswarthogwildlifebased on memoir or autobiographyanimalsnature

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