Tyke: Elephant Outlaw

2015
1h 18m

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This is the gripping and emotionally charged story of Tyke, a circus elephant that went on a rampage in Honolulu in 1994, killed her trainer in front of thousands of spectators and died in a... Read allThis is the gripping and emotionally charged story of Tyke, a circus elephant that went on a rampage in Honolulu in 1994, killed her trainer in front of thousands of spectators and died in a hail of gunfire. Her break for freedom - filmed from start to tragic end - traumatised a ... Read allThis is the gripping and emotionally charged story of Tyke, a circus elephant that went on a rampage in Honolulu in 1994, killed her trainer in front of thousands of spectators and died in a hail of gunfire. Her break for freedom - filmed from start to tragic end - traumatised a city and ignited a global battle over the use of animals in the entertainment industry. Lo... Read all

Directors
- Susan Lambert
- Stefan Moore
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7.4/10

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Directors
- Susan Lambert
- Stefan Moore
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 nominations total

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4jmcdinis-99

Great idea, bad execution

The documentary's point is very simples and what you'd expect: the way animals are treated in circuses is bad and they should not be used in circuses, they should be left in the wild, where they're happy. Good idea. But the way the directors tried to makes us feel empathy with Tyrone, Tyke's trainer is absolutely disgusting. They're censuring animal abuse while trying to force compassion with the exact man who abused them. If the target audience is the unthinking overly-sensitive who fall in love by someone as long as some cheap emotional music is cued in, no matter what words come out of their mouths, they did a great job.

10rodrigosangines

Changed my mind

This documentary show us why we shouldn't use wild animals for circus!! I saw the documentary with tears in my eyes.

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Herself - Elephant handler: When they take their trunk and blow against your face and they wrap their trunk around you, it's fabulous - wonderful. But those days are gone. If I could have worked elephants without all the brutality, that would have been fabulous, absolutely fabulous. And when I look back, like I said, I'm sure there's a special place in hell for me for what I did to the elephants, because that was what I was told I had to do to stay alive and to keep those elephants in line. But now I know that was all nonsense.