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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

An unforgettable 911 call in which a shocked observer explains that "a whale has eaten one of the trainers" opens Blackfish, a chilling documentary by director Gabriela Cowperthwaite about young ...

"It grew into something that felt like a thriller with really high stakes," says the director of her latest doc, which examines global land and water rights and the race for the world's last farmable ...