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Our Zoo (2014) is a BBC family drama you can watch online on iFILM — the true story of George Mottershead and how he built Chester Zoo from scratch in the 1930s.
George came back from the Great War restless and convinced that ordinary life wasn't going to hold him. When a travelling showman offers him a camel and a monkey about to be put down, the idea crystallises: a zoo, open to everyone, no bars on the enclosures. His extended family gets swept up in it, willing or not. Lee Ingleby plays George as a man running on stubborn conviction; Liz White is his wife, practical and loving in equal measure, keeping the household from falling apart while her husband buys an estate they can barely afford. The series is warm without being sentimental, and the animal sequences are handled with enough care that younger viewers will stay hooked alongside adults. Stream Our Zoo online on iFILM.
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