African Hunting Holiday (2008)

Original title

Louis Theroux's African Hunting Holiday

Directed by

Paddy Wivell

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

58 min

Rated

12

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Louis Theroux travels to South Africa to look at the business of canned hunting. He interviews the tourists who pay to shoot lions and other big game in fenced areas. The documentary also talks to the people who run these safaris and examines how the practice affects local wildlife populations.

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What happens

African Hunting Holiday is a 2008 British documentary by Louis Theroux. Theroux journeys to Limpopo Province, South Africa to join the foreign holidaymakers who flock there to hunt big game in so-called "canned" safaris where animals are purpose bred to be hunted in enclosures, including controversial animals such as lions. The documentary features not only the hunters but also the individuals who run the safaris, and the effects they have on the numbers of certain species in these areas. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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