Mountains of the Moon
β 6.5 Β· 1990 Β· 136m Β· Adventure Β· Drama Β· History
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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