Serengeti Shall Not Die [SEP] director
Serengeti Shall Not Die
Serengeti Shall Not Die () is a 1959 German documentary film written and directed by Bernhard Grzimek.
His son, the cinematographer Michael Grzimek, died on-location during the filming of the documentary when a plane he piloted collided with a vulture.
It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1960.
the conservation of the Serengeti. He spent several years studying the wildlife there along with his son Michael Grzimek, especially on areal observation and counts of large scale annual migrations. The documentary film "Serengeti Shall Not Die" was written and directed by Bernard and Michael Grzimek and won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 1959.
In the same year Michael was killed in an air crash while flying the Dornier Do 27 due to a collision with a griffon vulture. Grzimek wrote a best-selling book, "Serengeti Shall