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Academy Award-nominated actress Natalie Portman and animal rights activist Jack Hanna team up to co-host the documentary Saving a Species: Gorillas on the Brink. Hanna and Portman embark on a journey into the wilds of Central Africa, where an increasingly rare species of ape, the imperiled mountain gorilla, roams free. In addition to searching for the magnificent beasts on-camera, the co-hosts discuss and explore the ways in which dedicated conservationists and naturalists are laboring to save the primates from complete extinction.