Greystoke

Greystoke is a 2013 ten part miniseries by HBO and based on the novels Tarzan of the Apes and The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The miniseries itself episode is 1 hour long and is the most faithful adaption of the novel so far, Upon airing it received critical acclaim for its faithfulness to the novels and it also won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Miniseries and Outstanding Drama Series.

Plot
In 1889 Lord John Greystoke and his wife Lady Alice are abandoned on the west coast of the Belgium Congo following a mutiny and soon after Alice gives birth but soon afterwards dies from a fever. At the same time a female Gorilla named Kala loses her baby and her tribe led by the bloodthirsty Tublat come to the tree house where the Greystokes live and Tublat kills Lord John whilst he is grieving over his dead wife and Kala adopts the baby boy.

22 years later in 1910 the grown up boy named Tarzan meets a stranded expedition consisting of Jane Porter, her father Archimedes Q. Porter, her ward Esmeralda and William Cecil Clayton who unbeknownst to them Tarzan's cousin. One day they are attacked by a pride of Lions and Jane is separated from them but is rescued by Tarzan and soon by both fall in love. But eventually Jane returns to America and Tarzan follows her back.

However after learning that she is engaged he returns heart broken to the jungle but ends up being involved in a search for the lost city of Opar. Jane only realizing her love for Tarzan goes after him and in the end she chooses to remain in the Jungle with Tarzan.