Seaspiracy
An urgent investigative documentary follows a filmmaker into the global fishing industry’s hidden environmental damage and alleged corruption.
Overview
Uncover the dark truths lurking beneath the waves and the corruption that threatens our oceans.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Moderate
- urgent
- confrontational
- alarming
- environmental awareness viewing
- activist discussion
What critics said
Critics broadly found the documentary forceful and effective as environmental advocacy, while questioning its scientific precision, oversimplifications, and sensational or conspiratorial framing.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The investigation links commercial fishing, pollution, bycatch, and harm to marine species with broader institutional corruption.
Ali Tabrizi moves from documenting ocean life toward increasingly consequential findings about fishing practices and global corruption.
The documentary examines dolphin-safe tuna labeling and questions the reliability of sustainability claims.
Abrupt revelations, alarming interviews, and disturbing imagery frame the fishing industry as an urgent moral crisis.
Films like Seaspiracy, and why
The Cove
environmental documentary investigation using urgent advocacy and disturbing evidence about ecological destruction
Blackfish
activist documentary exposing industrial exploitation through confrontational interviews and investigative reporting
A Plastic Ocean
environmental documentary combining investigative journalism, ecological crisis, and accessible persuasive filmmaking
Before the Flood
politically charged environmental documentary focused on corporate systems and human damage to nature
Movie Details
- Director
- Ali Tabrizi
- Release Date
- 2021-03-24
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 (477)
Cast
- Ali Tabrizi
- Sylvia Earle
- Richard O'Barry
- Paul de Gelder
- Lucy Tabrizi
- Jonathan Balcombe
- George Monbiot
- Michael Klaper
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Seaspiracy about?
- An urgent investigative documentary follows a filmmaker into the global fishing industry’s hidden environmental damage and alleged corruption.
- What is Seaspiracy like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Seaspiracy as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Seaspiracy violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in Seaspiracy as moderate.
- What did critics think of Seaspiracy?
- Critics broadly found the documentary forceful and effective as environmental advocacy, while questioning its scientific precision, oversimplifications, and sensational or conspiratorial framing.
- Which films are like Seaspiracy?
- Films with a similar feel include The Cove, Blackfish, A Plastic Ocean, and Before the Flood.
- How long is Seaspiracy?
- Seaspiracy runs 89 minutes.
- Where can I watch Seaspiracy?
- In United States, Seaspiracy streams on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads.
