Watch Frontline Season 16 Episode 5: A Whale of a Business

Premiered: January 1, 1983
Rating: None
Premise: Investigative news program featuring in-depth documentaries. (more)

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Season 16, Episode 5 A Whale of a Business

First Aired: November 11, 1997

Efforts to free the orca featured in the 1993 movie “Free Willy” are used as a springboard to examine the marine-park industry and how, as coproducer Neil Docherty puts it, “we got those whales into captivity in the first place.” Interviewees include officials from Sea World and the Free Willy Foundation.