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Orca (also known as Orca: The Killer Whale) is a 1977 American thriller film directed by Michael Anderson, from a screenplay by Luciano Vincenzoni and Sergio Donati, and starring Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Will Sampson, Bo Derek, Keenan Wynn and Robert Carradine.
The orca (Orcinus orca), or killer whale, is a toothed whale and the largest member of the oceanic dolphin ... Following the success of the 1993 film Free Willy, ...
Keiko became the star of the film Free Willy in 1993. The publicity from his role led to an effort by Warner Brothers to find a better home for the orca. The pool for the now 21-foot-long (6.4 m) orca was only 22 feet (6.7 m) deep, 65 feet (20 m) wide and 114 feet (35 m) long.
Filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite talks about the "Blackfish effect" 10 years later, how SeaWorld gave her a metaphorical "gift basket" and what she hopes will still change.
In 2013, the documentary film Blackfish showed the psychological toll of what killer whales go through when they live in captivity, through the story of a wild-caught orca named Tilikum who had ...
Also known as "killer whales," orcas — the largest members of the dolphin or "toothed whales" family, a suborder of cetaceans — are the only known marine predators of white sharks, another ...
The 1984 film Samson and Sally, the 1995 film The Pebble and the Penguin, and the 2006 film Happy Feet both also featured killer whales as antagonists. Splashy from Flushed Away . In Disney's " The Little Mermaid (TV series) , features Spot, a playful killer whale that Ariel adopts and takes care of when he was a baby.
In a rare video captured by a whale watching expedition off the coast of San Diego this week, a killer whale teaches its baby how to hunt by headbutting a dolphin, causing it to flip several times ...