Fans of streaming services have only a limited time remaining to catch a documentary on Disney+/Hulu that has been hailed as one of the best ever made, before it departs the platform next month.
With streaming services offering an extensive range of TV shows and movies, older content often needs to make way for new releases.
On September 6, a gripping documentary is set to leave Hulu, disappointing many viewers who have come to admire it.
“The Cove,” released in 2009, chronicles former dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry’s mission to expose the dolphin hunting practices in Taiji, Wakayama, Japan.
Ric O’Barry, now 85, is an animal rights activist leading the Dolphin Project. He ‘has rescued and rehabilitated dolphins in numerous countries around the world, including Haiti, Colombia, Guatemala, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Brazil, South Korea, the Bahamas Islands, and the United States,’ according to the Dolphin Project’s website.
The Cove provides a sobering look at global dolphin hunting realities, driven by O’Barry’s commitment to justice.
One viewer exclaimed on Rotten Tomatoes, “The best documentary movie ever made!” while another found it ‘harrowing.’
A third viewer remarked, “The most eye opening and amazing movie I have ever seen,” and another noted: “A deeply disturbing profile of the dolphin hunting practices in Taiji, Japan, captured on video by Richard O’Barry and fellow supporters/activists. I wish I had watched this years ago.”
With an impressive 95 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, the documentary is regarded by critics as essential viewing.
Journalists praised the documentary for its significant message and storytelling.
The Guardian highlighted its inventive approach: “The great strength of this documentary about the covert killing of wild dolphins in Japan is its aesthetic: artful edits, zippy music, even a few jokes. Radical stuff for an eco-documentary.”
Film.com’s review praised it as “guerrilla journalism at its best. Structured and paced by director Louie Psihoyos as a thriller/caper movie, it brings audience-grabbing cinematic conventions to work in telling its story of dolphin genocide.”
The Australian described it as a ‘horror’ film: “By any measure, this is a horror film: graphic, shocking, uncompromising. The horrors, moreover, are real: the annual slaughter of thousands of dolphins in a secluded cove in Japan, where they are trapped in nets and hacked and speared to death.”
Make sure to watch The Cove before it departs on September 6.