I think that many of who have an youtube channel on wildlife already known Paul Balenovic. For who don't know him:

True story of Paul (Pavle) Balenovic, and his friend and companion wolf named LIK. In 1980 Paul decided to adopt a wolf cub from LIKA region (Croatia) and named the wolf Lik, a namesake of the Lika area. Lik lived permanently, for the first two years of his life, in Paul's house, on the outskirts of the town Zagreb.
From the very beginning he was given a german shepherd dog as the companion to live with in the following 11 years. Knowing only too well that Lik needed the open, wild natural spaces, Paul began regular visits to the wild highland areas of Velebit along with his wolf friend, staying there for days and nights. There, in the nature, they had a profound friendship and respect for each other, but their relationship became more complex and was not always idyllic. Therefore it assumed a brutal rivalry that is proper for a wolf pack. Paul learned from Lik to think in a wolf's way and has himself now become a man-wolf. Owing to his spiritual kinship with Lik and persistent understanding for the wolves, Paul has gained a privileged status as no known human in the whole world has ever done before. Never will Paul have a mind to tame or domesticate Lik knowing how humiliating and damaging it can be for a wild and untamable animal. He knew full well that Lik belonged to the wilderness and with his own kind. Paul went to Bosnia to work on one movie where he accidentally captured a young female wolf and brought her home to to be a companion to Lik. Liks dog companion Blue died in the age of 11. The young Lacha, as she was named, very soon became inseparable from Lik and a little while later they had offspring. This was the best chance for Paul to organize his plan and release them back into the wild. Wolves were released in 1992. Paul wa not quite sure what to expect after the release. The bonding between Lik and Paul was too strong. He was waiting the cubs to grow up to be able to follow Lik whose only idea was to find Paul.
One day Lik decided to jump into his Land Rover through the window. This was the decisive moment in which the wolf linked himself with his human brother forever. In 1998 Lik died (in the age of 18 ). His devoted friend buried Lik deep in the wilderness of Velebit. Paul is now regularly visiting Velebit mountain He always travels alone to Velebit because it is the only way to maintain and hold the trust of the wolves. Paul says "Life of the wolf needs to stay a secret, for the wolf' sake".

On him channel you can find many footage of the documentary:

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Feel free to write and ask any question to Paul: he's a friendly person and always reply!

The DVD (or VHS or any other support) of the entire documentary is unobtainable also for Paul Can anyone obtain a copy from BBC? It seems that BBC had broadcast it for the last time in 2001.

d'ho! Excuse me a lot, I think that the right section for this would be Video... but I just "discovered" the Video section... because was "hidden" by the YT video in home page... TheWhiteFox, can you move?

EDIT: Moved by request.

An interesting story. At least one who has 'owned' a wolf understand their needs unlike many who naively purchase purebred wolves. I'll have to check out his videos in more depth sometime.

That's quite the story!

Trying to raise a wolf as a pet is a really, really, bad idea. If this seems obvious tou you as it is to me, then good for you. It's way better than finding out the hard way, that you can take a wolf out of the wild, but you can't take the wild out of the wolf.