Ocean Souls

2020

English

7.5

♡ 4

Philip Hamilton Director

Flora Clark as Narrator

Ocean Souls Films and Wildlife Media unite 100+ filmmakers, scientists, and leading experts to shine a bright, new spotlight on humanity’s closest living relatives - cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises). New footage and scientific discoveries reveal the extraordinary world beneath the ocean’s surface, where these majestic beings exhibit characteristics not unlike ours in terms of emotions, language, family, intelligence, and human interaction. Directed by Philip Hamilton, this multi-award-winning film inspires people to care and want to protect the oceans.

Humpback Whales

2015

English

7.1

♡ 37

100%

Greg MacGillivray Director

Ewan McGregor as Narrator

Humpback Whales takes audiences to Alaska, Hawaii and the Kingdom of Tonga for a close-up look at how these whales communicate, sing, feed, play and take care of their young. Humpbacks were nearly driven to extinction 50 years ago, but today are making a steady recovery. Join a team of researchers as they explore what makes humpbacks the most acrobatic of all whales, why only the males sing, and why these intelligent 50-foot, 48-ton animals migrate more than 6,000 miles round-trip every year.

Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie

2002

English

6.5

♡ 8

64%

Mike Nawrocki Director

Joe Ranft as Fisher

Don Rickles as Various

Harry Shearer as Various

Maurice LaMarche as Whale

Get ready as Bob the Tomato, Larry the Cucumber and the rest of the Veggies set sail on a whale of an adventure in Big Idea's first full-length, 3-D animated feature film. This is the story of Jonah and the Whale as you've never seen it before - a story where we learn that one of the best gifts you can give - or get - is a second chance.

Goddess

2013

English

5.9

♡ 6

35%

Mark Lamprell Director

Magda Szubanski as Cassandra Wolfe

Tamsin Carroll as Deb

Pia Miranda as Sophie

Elizabeth McLean as Voiceover

Elspeth Dickens dreams of finding her "voice" despite being stuck in an isolated farmhouse with her twin toddlers. A web-cam becomes her pathway to fame and fortune, but at a price.

Giants of the Deep Blue

2018

English

6.5

♡ 3

Pre-historic giants roam the world's oceans. Go beneath the surface of the sea for an extraordinary look & listen at these majestic creatures, as we explore their social behavior & hunting strategies.

Isolation

2021

English

3.4

♡ 8

67%

Andrew Kasch Director

Marieh Delfino as Cecilia

Larry Fessenden as Man

Sarah Nicklin as News Reporter

Alex Weed as Ryan

An anthology of nine horror shorts filmed under the social distancing and self-isolation requirements of the COVID-19 outbreak.

I've Got to Sing a Torch Song

1933

English

5.4

♡ 5

Tom Palmer Director

Selmer Jackson as Announcer

The Rhythmettes as Girl Trio

Noreen Gammill as Greta Garbo / Zasu Pitts / Mae West

Sara Berner as Greta Garbo / Zasu Pitts / Mae West

Blackout gags and music, including the title song originated in the movie musical Gold Diggers of 1933. Hollywood figures caricatured include Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Blondell, James Cagney, Bing Crosby, Guy Kibbee, Zasu Pitts, Mae West, Bert Wheeler and Bob Woolsey, Ed Wynn, George Bernard Shaw, Mussolini, Ben Bernie, The Boswell Sisters and Greta Garbo, who does the "Dat's all, folks!".

Orca

1977

English

5.8

♡ 20

10%

newfoundland and labrador

ship

Thriller

whale

Michael Anderson Director

Bo Derek as Annie

Richard Harris as Captain Nolan

Keenan Wynn as Novak

Wayne Heffley as Priest

After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at the hands of a reckless Irish captain, a vengeful killer whale rampages through the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, the captain, a female marine biologist, and an Indigenous tribalist venture after the great beast, who will meet them on its own turf.

Big Miracle

2012

English

6.5

♡ 30

74%

based on a true story

Ken Kwapis Director

John Krasinski as Adam Carlson

Dermot Mulroney as Colonel Scott Boyer

Gregory Jbara as General Stanton

Kristen Bell as Jill Jerard

A small-town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer enlist the help of rival superpowers to save three majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle.

The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52

2021

English

6.5

♡ 7

88%

Joshua Zeman Director

Kate Micucci as Self

Ann Allen as Self - Biologist

Graham Burnett as Self - Professor of History, Princeton University

David Cade as Self - Research Biologist

THE LONELIEST WHALE is a cinematic quest to find the “52 Hertz Whale,” which scientists believe has spent its entire life in solitude calling out at a frequency that is different from any other whale. As the film embarks on this engrossing journey, audiences will explore what this whale’s lonely plight can teach us — not just about our changing relationship to the oceans, but to each other. Executive Produced with Leonardo DiCaprio and Adrian Grenier.

When the Whales Came

1989

English

6.2

♡ 1

60%

83%

Action

based on children's book

Clive Rees Director

Dexter Fletcher as Big Tim

Helen Mirren as Clemmie Jenkins

David Threlfall as Jack Jenkins

John Hallam as Treve Pender

A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.

Moby Dick

1956

English

7.3

♡ 30

81%

73%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

John Huston Director

Frazer Hines as Boy

Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab

James Robertson Justice as Captain Boomer

Richard Basehart as Ishmael

In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.

Shark vs. Whale

2020

English

5.5

♡ 4

A routine drone survey turns deadly when Ryan Johnson, a marine biologist based in South Africa, films a humpback whale being attacked and strategically drowned by a Great white shark. This is a total perspective shift for the creature.

Oceans

2008

English

7.7

♡ 1

81%

Jacques Perrin Director

Pierce Brosnan as Narrator

Rie Miyazawa as Narrator

Pedro Armendáriz Jr. as Narrator

Jacques Perrin as Self - Narrator

An ecological drama/documentary, filmed throughout the globe. Part thriller, part meditation on the vanishing wonders of the sub-aquatic world.

Fathom

2021

English

5.6

♡ 11

58%

Drew Xanthopoulos Director

Michelle Fournet as Self

Ellen Garland as Self

Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes as Self

Two biologists set out on an undertaking as colossal as their subjects—deciphering the complex communication of whales. Dr. Michelle Fournet and Dr. Ellen Garland journey to opposite hemispheres to uncover a culture eons older than our own.

Dolphins and Whales 3D: Tribes of the Ocean

2008

English

6.2

♡ 18

Jean-Jacques Mantello Director

Daryl Hannah as Narrator

Charlotte Rampling as Narrator

This documentary goes to coral reefs of the Bahamas and the waters of the Kingdom of Tonga for a close encounter with the surviving tribes of the ocean: wild dolphins and belugas, the love of a Humpback mother for her newborn calf, the singing Humpback males, an orca the mighty King of the ocean, and the gentle manatee. Little-known aspects of these creatures capable of sophisticated communication and social interaction. Documents the life of these graceful, majestic yet endangered sea creatures

Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf

2015

English

3.2

♡ 10

31%

Kevin O'Neill Director

Amanda Philipson as Additional Voices

Catherine Oxenberg as Dr. Elsa Reinhardt

Jennifer Wenger as Nurse Betty

Casper Van Dien as Ray Brady

When a mad scientist mixes the genes of a killer whale and a wolf, it creates the Whalewolf, and it's up to Sharktopus to stop it.

Blackfish

2013

English

8.1

♡ 58

98%

psychological thriller

Thriller

trauma

whale

Gabriela Cowperthwaite Director

Whoopi Goldberg as Herself

Meredith Vieira as Herself

Anderson Cooper as Himself

James Earl Jones as Himself

Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of keeping such intelligent and sentient creatures in captivity.

Free Willy

1993

English

6.1

♡ 29

71%

human animal relationship

social work

social worker

whale

Simon Wincer Director

Mykelti Williamson as Dwight Mercer

Michael Madsen as Glen Greenwood

Danielle Harris as Gwenie

Lori Petty as Rae Lindley

When maladjusted orphan Jesse vandalizes a theme park, he is placed with foster parents and must work at the park to make amends. There he meets Willy, a young Orca whale who has been separated from his family. Sensing kinship, they form a bond and, with the help of kindly whale trainer Rae Lindley, develop a routine of tricks. However, greedy park owner Dial soon catches wind of the duo and makes plans to profit from them.

Born to Be Free

7.6

Gayane Petrosyan Director

Manos Krystalis as Self

BORN TO BE FREE is a revelatory investigation by three intrepid free-diving journalists, Gaya, Tanya and Julia, into the global trade in wild sea mammals. Their journey takes us to the most remote corners of Russia and witnesses, for the very first time, the shocking treatment that whales, dolphins and walruses are subjected to and discovers the corruption at the heart of this cruel international business.

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Ocean Souls

Humpback Whales

Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie

Goddess

Giants of the Deep Blue

Isolation

I've Got to Sing a Torch Song

Orca

Big Miracle

The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52

When the Whales Came

Moby Dick

Shark vs. Whale

Oceans

Fathom

Dolphins and Whales 3D: Tribes of the Ocean

Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf

Blackfish

Free Willy

Born to Be Free