Ken Balcomb

Movies5

• Movie7.9

  Documentary

  Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of keeping such intelligent and sentient creatures in captivity.

  Blackfish

  2013 · 1.2K votes

• Movie7.0

  Documentary

  The devastating impact of industrial and military ocean noise on whales and other marine life.

  Sonic Sea

  2016 · 12 votes

• Movie7.5

  Documentary

  The grassroots independent documentary about Miami's biggest performer, Lolita the killer whale on display at the Miami Seaquarium. Through rare interviews and undercover footage viewers are dragged into the dark secrets of the multi-billion-dollar marine theme park industry and the life of Lolita who's been caught in a net of lies for 3 decades.

  Lolita: Slave to Entertainment

  2003 · 5 votes

• Movie

  Unless there are changes, endangered Southern Residents orcas face rapid extinction. Orca Network and filmmakers Rick Wood and Shari Macy teamed up to tell the complete story of the perils facing the killer whales and chinook salmon.

  Fragile Waters

  2014

• Movie

  Documentary

  For eons, a one-of-a-kind population of killer whales has hunted chinook salmon along the Pacific Coast of the United States. For the last 40 years, renowned whale scientist Ken Balcomb has closely observed them. He’s familiar with a deadly pattern, as salmon numbers plummet orcas starve. The orcas need roughly a million salmon a year, where to find a million fish? The solution, says Balcomb, is getting rid of four fish-killing dams 500 miles away on the largest tributary to what once was the largest chinook producing river on earth.

  Dammed to Extinction

  2019