Silverback

About Silverback

Feature-length documentary following award-winning wildlife cameraman Vianet Djenguet as he documents a gruelling but vital mission to ‘habituate’ a notoriously protective 450lb silverback, in a last-ditch effort to save the critically endangered eastern lowland gorillas from extinction.

Silverback is a 2024 documentary film directed by Miles Blayden-Ryall. Its themes are nature documentary, africa, animal documentary, and gorilla.

Vianet Djenguet plays Self. It was released in January 2024.

It streams on PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel in the United States.

Growing Up Wild, Rise of the Warrior Apes, and March of the Penguins make useful companions to Silverback, all filed under animal behaviour and animals & nature.