National Geographic Documentary Films has acquired the U.S. streaming rights to Werner Herzog ‘s new feature-length documentary Ghost Elephants , which had its world premiere at the Venice film festival on Wednesday. The doc will go out on Disney+ and Hulu in the U.S..

Herzog wrote, directed and narrates the documentary, in which he follows conservation biologist Steve Boyes, in his search to prove the existence of the mysterious, perhaps mythical, herd of ghost elephants in the highlands of Angola.

“After meeting Steve Boyes, an unexpected project that felt like the hunt for Moby Dick, the White Whale, came at me with great urgency,” Herzog said in a statement. “Like many of my films, this is an exploration of dreams, of imagination — weighed against reality. The film took me t

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