Contains real footage of dolphin killing.

Release date: 23 October 2008

Running time: 91 mins

Director: Louie Psihoyos

Starring: Richard O'Barry, Isabel Lucas, Louie Psihoyos, Hayden Panettiere

A documentary with all the tension and drama of a thriller.

Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, The Cove follows a high-tech dive team on a mission to discover the truth about the international dolphin capture trade as practised in Taiji, Japan. Utilising state-of-the-art techniques, including hidden microphones and cameras in fake rocks, the team uncovers how this small seaside village serves as a horrifying microcosm of massive ecological crimes happening worldwide. The Cove exposes not only the tragedy of dolphin slaughtering in Japan, but also the dangerously high levels of mercury in dolphin meat and seafood, the cruelty in capturing dolphins for entertainment, and the depletion of our ocean's fisheries by worldwide seafood consumption. The film also demonstrates how the International Whaling Commission has been manipulated by the Japanese Fisheries Agency for its own benefit - and how this has subsequently effected the rest of the world.

Screenplay: Mark Monroe

Distributor: Vertigo

You should see it because: Dolphin expert Richard O'Barry and director Louie Psihoyos team up to uncover a shocking truth.

See it if you liked: Sharkwater (2006), An Inconvenient Truth (2006), The End Of The Line (2009)