For anyone interested in Burton, I strongly recommend the now-forgotten film The Mountains of the Moon (1990), directed by Rafelson and starring Patrick Bergin

For anyone interested in Burton, I strongly recommend the now-forgotten film The Mountains of the Moon (1990), directed by Rafelson and starring Patrick Bergin as Burton and Iain Glen as his companion John Hanning Speke. Bergin (whose career quickly faded after this, unfortunately) is fantastic as Burton, an early Byronesque renaissance man who eschewed Victorian customs but combined both learning and adventure, and whose lack of respect for societal norms made him unpopular with the upper classes. Overall, it's an incredibly beautiful film, shot by the great Roger Deakins on location in Africa.