List of Doc / Films on Animal Rights

Following are the list of Films / Documentaries on Animal Rights:

1. Behind the Mask (2006 documentary film) – (English)

 It is The Story of the People Who Risk Everything to Save Animals is a 2006 documentary film about the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). The movie was created by animal-rights lawyer Shannon Keith, who owns Uncaged Films and ARME (Animal Rescue, Media & Education). The documentary was produced in response to a perceived bias in the mainstream media against the animal rights movement.

2. Blood of the Beasts (Le Sang des bêtes) (1949 documentary film) – (French)

Written and directed by Georges Franju. Blood of the Beasts was Franju’s first film and is narrated by Georges Hubert and Nicole Ladmiral. Franju’s film contrasts peaceful scenes of Parisian suburbia with scenes from a slaughterhouse. The film documents the slaughtering of a horse, sheep, and calves; once the horse is stunned by a pistol, it is bled and butchered. The film is narrated without emotive language.

3. The Cove (2009 documentary film) – (English)

It is a 2009 documentary film of the purported annual killing of about 2,300 dolphins in a National Park at Taiji, Wakayama, in Japan. The film highlights that this is about three times the amount of whales killed in the Antarctic, and claims that 23,000 dolphins and porpoises are killed in Japan every year. The migrating dolphins are herded into a hidden cove where they are netted and killed by means of spears and knives over the side of small fishing boats.

4. Earthlings (2005 documentary film) – (English)

It is a documentary about human dependence on animals for pets, food, clothing, entertainment and experimentation.

5. Peaceable Kingdom (2004 documentary film) – (English)

Peaceable Kingdom is a documentary produced in 2004 by Tribe of Heart that shows how some farmers refuse to kill animals and how they convert to veganism as a way of life. They create an animal sanctuary farm called “Farm Sanctuary” where they collect many injured animals, half dead, abandoned and rejected by industry for not being productive. Some examples of this would be a cow with mastitis or newborn chicks unfit for production

6. Sharkwater (2007 documentary film) – (English)

Sharkwater is a 2007 Canadian documentary film written and directed by Rob Stewart, who also plays the lead role. In the film, Stewart seeks to deflate current attitudes about sharks, and exposes how the voracious shark-hunting industry is driving them to extinction.

7. The Meatrix – (English)

It is a short animation criticizing the methods of industrial agriculture and factory farming

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_about_animal_rights