King Kong is back. As we all know, writer/director Peter Jackson will direct a new, large-scale remake featuring a monstrous computer generated ape to be created by Jackson's special effects company WETA Digital. However, Kong's origins lay long ago, towards the beginning of the last century in fact. What follows is a history of the great ape's adventures, on both the large and small screen. This history's films and TV series are the one's that were widley released. Many of the films that never left their native countries, such as the Indian and Japanese films, are not listed. [History]