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The Ivory Game is an epic documentary feature that goes undercover into the dark and sinister underbelly of ivory trafficking. Award-winning director Richard Ladkani and Academy Award-nominated director Kief Davidson filmed undercover for 16 months with a crack team of intelligence operatives, undercover activists, passionate frontline rangers and tough-as-nails conservationists, to infiltrate the corrupt global network of ivory trafficking. A production from Terra Mater Film Studios and Vulcan Productions, the film follows poachers in pursuit of the 'white gold' of ivory. Time is running out for the African elephants, dangerously nearing closer and closer to extinction.
Rating
NR
Director
Richard Ladkani, Kief Davidson
Studio
Netflix
- Well rounded documentary that covers off both the poaching, and trading aspects. Quite a lot of characters though in the story results in a lot of repetition, perhaps more impactful if they'd gone for a more focused 60 minute documentary.Reply
- must see, exciting to see that there are people who are fighting for the Elephants, boycott China!Reply
- With a powerful message. And an extraordinary cinematography, this documentary is one heck of a jewel that needs to be seen to reflex and to analize af what we're doing to our wild life, specially the elephants. Hope it gets nominated for this year academy award on the documentary feature category. 5/5Reply
- Excellent camera work, good documentary story telling and an inside look at the continuing horror typical of society's disregard for wildlife, and the few heroic activists taking on the challenge for us all.Reply
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- Eye-opening! I didn't realize that poaching was still such a huge problem, and how it was on the rise recently. This film tells a great story, and has an uplifting ending. We gotta get China to stop buying ivory products! Watched on Netflix at Sam's house with her, November 13, 2016.Reply
- 11/12/16 NetflixA terrific documentary with many facets that needs to be told. Kudos to Netflix for backing this project. It is a disturbing, ugly and anger inducing film that exposes the assholes who are poachers, traders, dealers and buyers of African ivory. It is encouraging and positive as it shows the Park Rangers who are courageous enough to take on the poachers, the investigators who are creative and hard working enough to root out the illegal trade and it is heartwarming and educational as you learn of the elephant culture. Lastly it does not show the carnage upclose. Hopefully, this will help save even a few of the dwindling number of these magnificent animals.Reply
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- While it is wonderful to see rangers, conservationists and activists in the documentary trying to fight and expose this terrible crime, you fear it's a losing battle.Reply
- While The Ivory Game's ambitiously broad look at the illegal ivory trade takes on a bit more than it needs to, it does shed some definite light on a growing global problem.Reply
- An extraordinary documentary that gives us hope that the last wild elephants in Africa can be saved from extinction.Reply
- A documentary that plays with the gripping pacing and glossy production values of a suspenseful, international thriller.Reply
- While more information on the animals and their ecosystems is needed, the stakes described here are immense, as is the sorrow over majestic creatures massacred only so that their tusks can be made into baubles.Reply