Oscar-winning fact-based drama chronicling the lives of game wardens Joy and George Adamson, who adopted an orphaned lion cub in Kenya and trained the animal to survive in the wild so that one day it might return to its natural habitat. Starring Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers and Geoffrey Keen.

At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two larger lions are shipped off to a zoo in the Netherlands, the smallest of the three, Elsa, stays with the couple. When Elsa is blamed for causing an elephant stampede in the nearby village, head warden John Kendall demands the young lion either be trained to survive in the wilds of the Serengeti or be sent to a zoo.