Blackfish

Year: 2013

Country: USA

Tagline: Never capture what you can't control.

Plot: Shocking, never before seen footage and riveting interviews with trainers and experts manifest the orcas extraordinary nature, the species cruel treatment in captivity over the last four decades, and the growing disillusionment of workers who were misled and endangered by the highly profitable sea-park industry. This emotionally wrenching, tautly structured story challenges us to consider our relationship to nature and reveals how little we humans have learned from these highly intelligent and enormously sentient fellow mammals.Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. The documentary follows the controversial captivity of killer whales, and its dangers for both humans and whales.

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