It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

I truly feel that this movie should be a must watch for young adults. It has a ton of educational value on the lives of orcas, as well as some heart-wrenching lessons in human depravity that seemingly have not sunk in for decades. The documentary tells the story of Sea World and one of its affiliates located in Spain. More specifically, the deaths that were caused by distressed Orcas at these venues. I thought they did an excellent job of chronologically developing the story so that you see how it all began. As a visitor of Marine Land in Niagara Falls, I had no idea that the treatment of these sea creatures was so deplorable. We should be ashamed that the abuse of animals for profit is being allowed to continue and there are some very valuable lessons to be learned here.Incredible footage will keep you mesmerized. Have watched several times and would do so again.

I will just mention one instance from the documentary and you think about it. There is a short mentioning of how a trainer used to train Orcas that were new to the park by putting them together with older, trained Orcas and asking them to perform the same tasks. When they, inevitably, failed, both animals were punished by being deprived of food. So the older, trained Orca, took it out on the younger, untrained one. Now, sit back and think about the same tactic being employed by human parents against their children. "I don't know who did it, but you are both grounded". There you go – a documentary about whales in captivity that taught you something about your own wrong methods of parenting.Aside from that, when you are done watching this, you will probably and justifiably never want to go to a marine park show with Orcas ever again. The documentary just works as a wake-up slap. We separate a baby whale calf from its mother and social structure, keep it as grown, 5 ton, apex predator in a pool for its entire life and milk it for its semen. If you ask me, Orcas must be the most mellow creatures on earth, for them to have only killed this few people in captivity…You want to see Orcas? Fly to Alaska or Iceland and get on a boat, to see them as they are meant to be: Swimming free and with erected dorsal fins.

A disturbing and infuriating documentary about the abuse of Orcas in captivity, and how that treatment has lead in turn to a startling number of deaths and serious injuries of trainers. The film posits that taking an up to 12,000 pound creature used to freedom and traveling up to 100 miles a day with it's incredibly close extended family, capturing it and plunking it in a giant concrete swimming pool with strange whales from other pods and goading them into performing tricks multiple times a day is a good formula to lead to these intelligent and amazing creatures to slowly go crazy, and act out. It's a hard concept to argue against. This is indeed a one sided film, but there are cases where 'fair and balanced' is not an appropriate approach for a documentary. There aren't always two equal sides to every story. This is one such situation.It's very moving to hear ex—trainer after ex-trainer express their remorse for how the whales were treated, and their sadness and anger for their fallen and injured comrades, And it's deeply chilling to see so much compelling evidence that Sea World knew just how bad things were, and worked overtime to keep it from the press, the public and even the trainers themselves – many of whom were fed lies about the whales (e.g. they live longer in captivity) that they in turn fed the visiting public. The footage of the actual attacks are truly terrifying. This is not a film for kids. But it is a film to remind us of how far companies will go for a buck, and how humans can blind themselves to the sufferings of others – Orcas or other people – when it's in their short term self-interest.

The film is called The Ivory game, it's fantastic and the only reason I am posting it in here is because if we care about Orcas, we surely care about other Animals too.I wrote the following review, if you enjoyed and felt deeply after watching this one, please do the same with the Ivory game, what the Chinese are doing to those animals will make you cry, how is it possible so much cruelty and that many just stand watchingLuckily there are heroes in this story too, they are willing to talk and act Tigers, Elephants, Rhinos, humans are exterminating everything that the Chinese fancy for just money.What are doing to the future generations? What is our legacy as a society?part of my review The Ivory GameEvery once in a while a documentary comes along that can make a difference, Hello Orcas, thanks Blackfish.The extermination of elephants, in such cruel way has only one responsible peole, the Chinese. In China Ivory is a status luxury item, rich people loves it, and the president himself did not commit to an end of barbarities, like a good criminal politician, he said that someday in the future China will end its Ivory trade, meanwhile China continues to execute Elephants, 1 every 15 minutes Ask yourselves why the Chinese government doesn't stop the trade, don't do anything to smugglers and let this happen?It's their business too!