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MagicalCat590
Hippie Witch
http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/on-the-town/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2013/12/20/seaworld_responds_to.html
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/23/opinion/seaworld-blackfish-controversy/
By being Seaworld? Like I said, the documentary was inspired by the true story of Lolita the orca, but she lives in a completely different and very underfunded park called the Miami Seaquarium. The park is actually infamous for it's mistreatment of Lolita and because of the fact that the orca she once shared a tank with is believed to have committed suicide by ramming its head repeatedly into the glass of the tank. Lolita is also the orca that inspired the 1990s movie Free Willy.
That being said, Seaworld actually contributes to saving animals. Almost all the animals in the park are rescues that were too damaged to return to their natural habits. But a lot of the animals they take in do recover and eventually return to their habitats. Seaworld just ran into some bad publicity last year when an orca trainer was attacked and killed, but there's nothing to be said about that. Some animals are just more aggressive than others and not to meant to perform like Shamu or the dolphins. Granted, if the animal showed signs that it did not enjoy the training or was depressed or something, they should have stopped training immediately. So that's on them, I agree, but no one is perfect and I can only hope they had the animal's best interests at heart. That bad publicity just made them an easy target for the makers of the documentary because they were already in the public eye.
Anyway, here's a link about Lolita the orca and if you guys are really concerned about everything that happened to her, then I suggest you join the Free Lolita campaign like I have. There's a Facebook page and even a website (www.freelolita.org) you can look at if you're interested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita_(orca)
marzipanmermaid
*insert Pikmin noises*
I love documentaries on Pripyat. I watched a really good one on Youtube. I'll try to find it a bit.
There's a documentary on Netflix called The Paw Project about the horrible issue of declawing your cats and how it's essentially crippling them (by cutting off the equivalent of our fingers up to the first knuckle); it had me in tears.
I'm trying to find this really awesome series on Youtube (I'm assuming they were recorded off the telly?) and they kind of countdown to disasters/tragedies by discussing and "re-living" the hours before it happened.
There's a documentary on Netflix called The Paw Project about the horrible issue of declawing your cats and how it's essentially crippling them (by cutting off the equivalent of our fingers up to the first knuckle); it had me in tears.
I'm trying to find this really awesome series on Youtube (I'm assuming they were recorded off the telly?) and they kind of countdown to disasters/tragedies by discussing and "re-living" the hours before it happened.
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Ehingen Guy
Passionate Hybreeder
I used to watch Machines of Malice on Discovery Channel. How anyone could come up with those machines and devices is beyond me.
I watched that in my 6th grade science class
remiaphasia
Senior Member
Guys and Dolls NSFW
Exit Through the Giftshop
The Poughkeepsie Tapes
Exit Through the Giftshop
The Poughkeepsie Tapes
marzipanmermaid
*insert Pikmin noises*
Seconding The Poughkeepsie Tapes.
The act of killing
Wait, is this actually a real documentary?! I remember seeing it the year I graduated high school but I didn't know it was a documentary. Thinking I need to watch it again!
I love documentaries, I've seen a lot of the ones Netflix has available but I'll have to check out Jesus Camp cause that one sounds interesting. Right now I'm watching How to Die in Oregon, about terminally ill patients considering the use of euthanasia. I really like it so far.
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These documentaries are pretty graphic, don't look for them if you're not into that kind of thing. They're both VICE documentaries, so they're very short.
Google the underlined and you should be able to find these documentaries.
Colombian Devil's Breath is a very interesting documentary over Scopolamine, a drug most commonly found in America that has some pretty terrifying effects on the victims.
There's also Krokodil (Crock-oh-dil) which is a drug rapidly gaining popularity in Siberia. Called Krokodil because of the way addicts' skin begins to get turn scaly, dry and eventually rot right off their bodies.
Google the underlined and you should be able to find these documentaries.
Colombian Devil's Breath is a very interesting documentary over Scopolamine, a drug most commonly found in America that has some pretty terrifying effects on the victims.
There's also Krokodil (Crock-oh-dil) which is a drug rapidly gaining popularity in Siberia. Called Krokodil because of the way addicts' skin begins to get turn scaly, dry and eventually rot right off their bodies.
I'll be watching those tonight
I've seen those. Interesting stuff.
ThomasNLD
Keep the wolves away
Some suggestions:
Stephen Fry: The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive.
"What The Bleep Do We Know", kinda like a mixture of documentairy and movie plotlining.
Like said before, Louis Theroux made some really good ones.
I love documentaries, also conspiracy theories.
Stephen Fry: The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive.
"What The Bleep Do We Know", kinda like a mixture of documentairy and movie plotlining.
Like said before, Louis Theroux made some really good ones.
I love documentaries, also conspiracy theories.
VioletPrincess
Senior Member
I watched Blackfish and that really opened my eyes. My daughter and I wanted to go to see the whales but not now and not ever.....
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