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 practiced in Taiji, Japan. Utilizing 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 oceans fisheries by worldwide seafood consumption. We also see how the mandate of the International Whaling Commission has been manipulated by the Japanese Fisheries Agency for its benefit and its subsequent effect on the rest of the world.

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Re: The Cove

Good Doc.. But I still think Food Inc. SHould have won the Oscar. It was forsure the biggest eye opener for me this year.

Re: The Cove

This movie makes me hungry.

Re: The Cove

I think [I]The Cove[/I] deserved the Oscar for sure. It was eye opening and also very emotional at parts. Some of the stuff in that made me tear up a little bit. Granted I'm kind of an animal nut, but still, there's some pretty fucked up stuff in there.

If you liked [I]The Cove[/I], another must see documentary is [I]Shark Water[/I].

Food Inc. was great too, but just not done as well overall. I had seen a bunch of documentary's before this one about the food industry so it wasn't as much an eye opener. If you liked Food Inc., check out [I]King of Corn[/I].