The single most influential movie to stop the annual dolphin ‘drive’ a.ka.a slaughter in Taiji, Japan. Brilliant as it is, the film is not an easy watch. 

Every year around 2000 dolphins are slaughtered for meat or to be sold to parks. The Oscar Award-winning movie, The Cove, 2009, questioned the hunt. 

“In a sleepy lagoon off the coast of Japan, behind a wall of barbed wire and “Keep Out” signs, lies a shocking secret. It is here, under cover of night, that the fishermen of Taiji engage in an unseen hunt for thousands of dolphins. The nature of the work is so horrifying, a few desperate men will stop at nothing to keep it hidden from the world. But when an elite team of activists, filmmakers and freedivers embark on a covert mission to penetrate the cove, they discover that the shocking atrocities they find there are just the tip of the iceberg.”

 Watch the movie.