Editing Born Free (section)

==Critical response and box-office==
''Born Free'' received critical acclaim. Review aggregator [[Rotten Tomatoes]] reports that 88% of 17 film critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 7.1 out of 10.<ref>{{cite web|title=Born Free|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/born_free/|work=[[Flixster]]|publisher=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=21 September 2023}}</ref>

''[[The Times]]'' of London's film critic found the lions delightful but felt the scenes involving the humans lacked a sufficient story and that Hill "must bear some of the blame for the embarrassment provided by the humans to the fore."<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=15 March 1966|page=13|title=Other People's Lions|author=Our Film Critic}}</ref>

[[Vincent Canby]] waxed enthusiastic about the film, writing in ''[[The New York Times]]'', "Almost from the opening shot – a vast expanse of corn-coloured African plain where lions feed on the carcass of a freshly killed zebra – one knows that Joy Adamson's best-selling book ''Born Free'' has been entrusted to honest, intelligent filmmakers. Without minimising the facts of animal life or overly sentimentalising them, this film casts an enchantment that is just about irresistible."<ref>{{cite web|last=Canby|first=Vincent|title=The Screen: Honesty and Humor Make 'Born Free' a Fresh and Moving Film: Biography of Lion Has Documentary Flavor|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E01EFD61231E53ABC4B51DFB066838D679EDE|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=18 December 2012|date=23 June 1966}}</ref>

The film was one of the most popular movies at the box office in Britain during 1966.<ref>{{cite news |title=Most popular star for third time |work=The Times |location=London, England |date=31 December 1966}}</ref>