Overview
- Herzog’s documentary follows South African naturalist Steve Boyes into Namibia and Angola to investigate reports of unusually large, elusive elephants.
- The film is now in theaters nationwide, with Forbes reporting concurrent availability on Disney+ and Hulu.
- Boyes’s plan involves darting any candidates to collect tissue for DNA testing to compare with a massive 1955 Smithsonian specimen known as “Henry.”
- Herzog says he began as an advisor on the project before being urged to take over as director during production.
- Critics highlight striking imagery and conservation context, including underwater elephant footage, African night-sky time-lapse, and archival scenes of helicopter hunts and land-mine dangers.