10 Film Documentaries That Accidentally Uncovered Major Scoops
5. Seaspiracy - Suistanble Seafood Is Harming Marine Life
Motivated by his love of marine life, the director of Netflix's Seaspiracy initially set out to make a more celebratory documentary than the one he ended up with.
Along the way though, he changed tact, choosing instead to focus on the numerous ways that humans are damaging the Earth's oceans, such as plastic pollution, overfishing, whaling, and other big topics.
The filmmaking process ended up shining a bright light on the dark secrets of the fishing industry, with many grim moments (including scenes of a bloodthirsty whale hunt in the Faroe Islands) peppered throughout the runtime.
But one of the biggest scoops in the film comes when Mark J. Palmer - associate director of the International Marine Mammal Project - admits that fishermen might actually be killing dolphins in the process of collecting their nets of tuna.
In an interview after the film was released, director Ali Tabrizi stated that Palmer's revelation felt like "a huge betrayal", angry that this so-called "sustainable" seafood might not actually be helping the marine life it claims to protect.