Animal Rescue Movies

Tails with tales to tell! In a consumerist society where everything, including man's best friend, is treated as disposable, everyday people aiding...

Checkpoint Zoo documents a daring rescue led by a heroic team of zookeepers and volunteers, who risked their lives to save thousands of animals...

Norman Smith has dedicated his life to protecting and relocating the snowy owls from Boston’s busiest airport runways. Called “the Owl...

A gravely ill, abused three-legged stray dog, abandoned in an industrial desert at Aspropyrgos, a town near Athens; a London based charity whose...

Documentary about the abandonment of cats in the Carlos Thays botanical garden, in the city of Buenos Aires, which is a very old problem. To help...

The power of fostering animals in need is undeniable. Hopalong Animal Rescue, based in Oakland, CA, demonstrates this every day. This short film...

Whales Without Walls is a short film that tells the story of our work to create North America’s first seaside sanctuary for whales being...

In January 2006, a Northern bottlenose whale swam into the River Thames. This is her story and the story of her rescue.

A short documentary that follows a teenage girl determined to rescue birds.

Bird entanglement from fishing gear is a global catastrophe. Unhooked tells the story of the world’s longest fishing pier, where bird rescuers...

Curiosity and Control examines our complex relationship to nature itself. A multi layered look at the world of Museums of Natural History and...

Visit almost any city and you will likely notice pigeons with deformed or missing feet. This is the result of fibres, often human hair, becoming...

At Whispering River Animal Rescue in Gasport, New York, volunteers work to save abused and abandoned donkeys from U.S. kill farms, care for them, and...

A gentle and heart-warming documentary which centres on guinea pig rescue centres and owners.

Ecologist Chris Morgan visits a remote peat swamp forest holding the most sophisticated orangutan culture on Earth, and an orphanage for the apes'...

Thousands of abandoned animals fight to survive every day. Faced with this reality, there are people dedicated to pouring their hearts into helping...

Uplifting tale of Staten Island woman who creates modern underground railroad and rescues 2,000 dogs condemned to death in Amish Country puppy mills....