Tag: killer whale

  • Free Willy

    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…

  • Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

    Jesse becomes reunited with Willy three years after the whale’s jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill.

  • Free Willy 3: The Rescue

    Willy the whale is back, this time threatened by illegal whalers making money off sushi. Jesse, now 16, has taken a job on an orca-researching ship, along with old friend Randolph and a sarcastic scientist, Drew. On the whaler’s ship is captain John Wesley and his son, Max, who isn’t really pleased about his father’s…

  • Free Willy: Escape from Pirate’s Cove

    After young Kirra leaves her Australian home to summer with her grandfather in South Africa, she soon discovers a baby orca stranded in the lagoon near her grandfather’s rundown seaside amusement park. She names the lonely whale Willy–and embarks on a great quest to lead the little guy back to his anxious pod.

  • Rust and Bone

    Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali’s bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.

  • Blackfish

    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.

  • A Whale of a Tale

    Young Joey wants to be an animal trainer so badly that he sneaks into off-limits areas of Marineland.

  • The Lighthouse of the Orcas

    A mother travels to Patagonia with her autistic son with the hope that a ranger and a pod of wild orcas can help him find an emotional connection.