The Cove (2009)

Cast

Hayden Panettiere
as Herself: Whateman Foundation / Save the Whales
Isabel Lucas
as Herself: Whateman Foundation / Save the Whales

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Genres & Description

Crime Documentary

8.5 / 10

Richard O'Barry was the man who captured and trained the dolphins for the television show Flipper (1964). O'Barry's view of cetaceans in captivity changed from that experience when as the last straw he saw that one of the dolphins playing Flipper - her name being Kathy - basically committed suicide in his arms because of the stress of being in captivity. Since that time, he has become one of the leading advocates against cetaceans in captivity and for the preservation of cetaceans in the wild. O'Barry and filmmaker 'Louie Psihoyos (I)' go about trying to expose one of what they see as the most cruel acts against wild dolphins in the world in Taiji, Japan, where dolphins are routinely corralled, either to be sold alive to aquariums and marine parks, or slaughtered for meat. The primary secluded cove where this activity is taking place is heavily guarded. O'Barry and Psihoyos are well known as enemies by the authorities in Taiji, the authorities who will use whatever tactic to expel the...

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Sunny Wakefield

ME AND MY TWIN SISTER WILL BE FLYING INTO WASHINGTON AND PERSONALLY HANDING OVER THE REST OF "ALL" OF THE EVIDENCE TO BOB MUELLER !!!! - @Saturday, November 24, 2018 1:11 AM

Gabriel Rivera

Mann i dont give a fck they say its traditional to kill because of their ancestors. This is barbaric - @Thursday, November 22, 2018 7:56 PM

Sunny Wakefield

FILTHY JAPAN !!!!! - @Wednesday, November 21, 2018 12:34 PM

Sunny Wakefield

SHAME ON JAPAN !!!!!! - @Wednesday, November 21, 2018 12:31 PM

朱棚博

Ric is a real hero - @Sunday, November 11, 2018 2:47 AM

MohMmad Labash

Black dolphins:) - @Thursday, November 8, 2018 8:02 PM

jenny r

Why are they being hunted? For aquariums or food or? - @Sunday, October 28, 2018 3:47 PM

Marco Navarrete

This is not about dolphin bit the jap culture is so motherfucker - @Wednesday, October 24, 2018 1:51 AM

Caroline Evans

Before the extinction of whales, Europeans who have been criticizing Japan will be wiped out by Muslim attacks. White Americans become minorities as the Hispanic population increases. I'm so happy!ヽ(●´∀`●)ﾉ - @Friday, October 19, 2018 1:44 AM

Pickle

What’s so special about dolphins - @Thursday, October 18, 2018 5:25 AM

templeroliver1

Seaworld runs Discovery cove - people haveing fun with dolphins living in a swimming pool that should stop too. - @Thursday, October 11, 2018 10:55 PM

Fabiola II Ludwig von Hoffenhelm

Japanese deny and refuse to apologize for Nanking Massacre in China by now, they even won't stop Fascism, how you guys ask them not to kill dolphin? - @Wednesday, October 3, 2018 10:43 AM

Hayder Almullahasan

I am really confused why are they hunting dolphins? If it was for food what difference does it make from hunting tuna or any kind of fish? Why is everyone upset about it? If they are hunting dolphins for fun then yah it's disgusting, I guess I have to see the hole thing before I fully judge this - @Saturday, September 29, 2018 4:50 PM

mpalaouros21

Fuckin Japanese. - @Tuesday, September 18, 2018 11:37 AM

SwaffyX

Sit on the hillside with a scoped rifle and hunt some humans. Problem solved. - @Thursday, August 30, 2018 7:34 PM

A. G.

I wish this suffering would finally stop!!! 😔😢😭...... - @Saturday, August 11, 2018 7:47 PM

JennaPlot

Ok well now we do know what they do and have they been stopped? - @Friday, August 10, 2018 8:14 PM

BlueMoon Builds

Disgusting people - @Friday, July 27, 2018 1:10 AM

Sunny Wakefield

THIS IS WHY JAPAN JUST GOT FLOODED AGAIN !!!!... - @Wednesday, July 25, 2018 11:50 PM

Bradley Kowe

Never been to SeaWorld never have - @Thursday, July 12, 2018 8:55 AM

Georgios Paraskeva

They ...forgot Faroe islands .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-FAKksjXMY its easy to blame the Japanese, Chinese, Russians - @Sunday, July 8, 2018 11:17 PM

Sunny Wakefield

JAPAN IS IN BIG BIG TROUBLE !!!! - @Wednesday, July 4, 2018 12:12 PM

Sunny Wakefield

The E.TS....... WILL CONTINUE to STRIKE THE PLANET EARTH With DESASTERS Until this has stopped ! - @Friday, June 22, 2018 1:57 PM

Wade Wilson

This is honestly the grosses movie/documentary I've ever seen. And I've seen the Mexican Cartel documentary 5 times. - @Saturday, June 9, 2018 5:16 PM

Alexander Cloud

Amerikkkas are the biggest hypocrites. - @Friday, June 8, 2018 1:07 PM

Jia Li

Please watch this documentary. It is truly an eye-opener! - @Sunday, June 3, 2018 3:04 PM

s s

racist - @Thursday, May 31, 2018 3:00 PM

Ziting Liu

If you eat meat, you need to STFU - @Friday, May 25, 2018 7:50 PM

SUNNY WAKEFIELD

THE E.TS WILL CONTINUE TO STRIKE THE PLANET WITH FLOODS, QUAKES, AND ERUPTIONS UNTIL THIS STOPS !!!! - @Sunday, May 20, 2018 1:46 AM

SUNNY WAKEFIELD

SHAME ON YOU JAPAN !!! - @Saturday, May 19, 2018 8:00 PM

齋藤マサシ

下らないただの偽善行為にしか過ぎない人様の国の事とやかく語るな - @Friday, May 18, 2018 9:26 AM

senorbacjan2

Who would like some one against killing whales and Delphine’s but likes sushi, some one who can’t respect other cultures and believes some one who have double standards... ah I know who! Milenios only - @Tuesday, May 8, 2018 7:52 PM

Elwood Hellsythe

...thanks College Humor, I guess. - @Tuesday, May 1, 2018 4:34 PM

CHUßßZ ßUNNY

YOu bob - @Monday, April 16, 2018 12:42 AM

Ratio:nality

Everyone here is, rightfully, lambasting the people responsible. But what's the difference between this and the suffering inflicted daily in the factory farms that feed the Western Nations today? - @Wednesday, February 21, 2018 12:50 PM

Ronnie Randy Serquinia, Jr.

I'm on this thread because of the song, "America Sucks Less." - @Monday, February 19, 2018 3:01 PM

一山田

Dolphin fishing is completely legal Cruel Sports hunting in the U.S and Europe should be blamed instead. - @Tuesday, February 13, 2018 8:25 AM

SeaShepherd Buster

SS threatened Japan and earned dirty money. Therefore, SS promised that SS will not interfere with Japan's whaling. That is, the purpose of SS was not protection of a whale but a dirty money profit. The hypocrisy and the lie of SS became clear. - @Monday, February 5, 2018 10:46 AM

SeaShepherd Buster

The Cove was the liar movie. - @Sunday, February 4, 2018 10:57 PM

area51thc

poor human souls doing this - @Tuesday, January 30, 2018 6:20 PM

Karl Sebastian Sollenhag

Thank you god for all the animals you made for us to eat. Dolphins looks sooo good! Genesis 9:3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything - @Wednesday, January 24, 2018 10:15 AM

T G

Time to nuke them again. - @Wednesday, January 17, 2018 11:08 PM

SeaShepherd Buster

A dolphin, a fish, and a whale are marine blessings. They are resources as well as a cow or a pig. There is no reason only a dolphin is excepted. It is not man even if it looks cleverly. It is an animal after all. There are many people wounded by the dolphin. You were only brainwashed with the images and tales which have shown the dolphin as a beautiful living thing. - @Tuesday, January 2, 2018 12:40 AM

Robert Avaient

my heart break as this aswome animals are being mjurdered by the japanese whalers. - @Friday, December 8, 2017 9:42 PM

SeaShepherd Buster

END of Sea Shepherds. It is now... - @Monday, December 4, 2017 12:44 PM

SeaShepherd Buster

I heard that Sea Shepherd is environmental groups. Wrong?? Why did SS throw many ropes, paints, and many powerful drugs for industry in the beautiful Antarctic sea? Pls explain me. Why did the hero who tries to protect the whale and the dolphin receive search "Wanted".? Why did environmental groups neglect broken AdyGill at sea? Why do they need many lies in order to protect whale and dolphin? .....lol - @Wednesday, November 29, 2017 8:19 AM

SeaShepherd Buster

See a movie "Behind The Cove". You understand how the movie of SS was a lie. - @Saturday, November 25, 2017 5:50 AM

voodookook

And they are still hiding this. - @Friday, November 24, 2017 12:59 AM

SeaShepherd Buster

Come on liar Sea Shepherds. - @Thursday, November 23, 2017 1:46 PM

Alyssa Heller

Hey everybody! This is NOT being done by japanese people, this is being done by the japanese government and fishermen. The people did not and for the most part still dont know this is going on and even after yhe doc exposed ot other countries would not vote to ban it. AND if you watch the movie this is not done for FOOD. The gov unknowingly put the dolphin meet in public schools for kids and labled it as whale meat. And in the movie the government response to an offer of money in exchange for NOT killing dolphins an official said "it is not about money it is about pest control" because the dolphins are eating the fish the japanese want to eat and sell all over the world. Sushi anyone? When film makers asked japanese people on the street how they felt about this, most said it was horrible and they wouldnt mind eating less fish. ALSO, once the fisherman trap the dolohins in the cove, before killing then they briefly look thru them and select and capture some to sell to sea world and other marine parks and swim with dolphin programs around the world. Once they are pulled out the rest are killed. The cove is red and it is a blood bath. Final though, japan is not the only country doing horrible things that not only murder animals, but torture them in gut wrenchingly cruel ways. There are videos of foxes being skinned alive and SCREAMING during the process. The truth is, being vegan and vegetarian is good but unless people stop BUYING and giving money to the meat industry, dairy industry, visit zoos, circuses, marine parks, go hunting or poaching, buy real fur and leather clothes, shoes, and purses, and cosmetics and medicine and other things tested on animals, which IS all a CHOICE and none of it NECESSARY in todays world, murder and torture will go on and never stop. These industries do not care about how these animals are treated and esp today in the 21st century, we dont have to do these things. But they hide it because if we were forced to look at the consequences or our choices, nobody would do these things. Everybody would be vegan too. But since we dont have to see or torture an animal with our bare hands, it is a lot to ask and a lot to do. And despite how much clothes and make up women buy, the fashion and beauty industries still dont have the kind of power and political influence the meat and dairy industries have. - @Thursday, November 23, 2017 8:49 AM