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Mountains of the Moon

Two strangers made friends by a savage land. Two friends made enemies by the civilized world.

Rating 6.6 / 10Release February 16, 1990Runtime 136 min

The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire.

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