Do you remember when the orca-focused documentary Blackfish blew us out of the water? Ten years later, Blackfish filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite looks back on her documentary and the impact it still ...

The rock band Heart joins a expanding group of musical artists who’ve cancelled scheduled performances at SeaWorld — they’ve all cited by the documentary Blackfish, which depicts the dark side of ...

LOS ANGELES — What the Oscar-winning 2009 documentary “The Cove” did for dolphin slaughter in Japan, “Blackfish” may do for killer whales living in captivity while performing at marine parks.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Gabriela Cowperthwaite was a mom who took her kids to SeaWorld when the death of a killer whale trainer at one of the marine parks sparked her latest filmmaking project. The ...

If you’ve ever paid to see one of those Sea World shows, you may wish you hadn’t after seeing a new documentary called “Blackfish.” Eleven million visitors per year see the various Sea World shows in ...

When director Gabriela Cowperthwaite set out to make Blackfish more than a decade ago, not even she knew the impact the documentary about the captivity of orcas, mostly at SeaWorld, would have. "I ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The rock bands Heart and Barenaked Ladies along with country singer Willie Nelson have canceled their planned performances at SeaWorld in Florida, citing a recent documentary that ...

About a week ago, in the early hours of Jan. 6, Tilikum — Seaworld’s best-known orca and the star of Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s 2013 documentary “Blackfish” — died at age 36. Captured wild in Icelandic ...

With all the talk of measuring the impact of documentaries, in the case of “Blackfish,” Gabriela Cowperthwaite‘s documentary about the danger of keeping whales in captivity, the effect is clear: ...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- SeaWorld says trainers will no longer stand or ride on dolphins. The move follows nearly a year of pressure from "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals" or PETA. However, ...

the Blackfish movie is *certainly* biased, and i don't think it was dispassionate. they may be right in the end, but they had made their choice of thesis before they started, and they only showed ...