The Ivory Game

Name: The Ivory Game
Genre: Documentary
Released: November 4, 2016
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 73

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Netflix | Release Date: November 4, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: Wildlife activists in take on poachers in an effort to end illegal ivory trade in Africa.

Director: Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 112 min

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Stephen Farber

Nov 1, 2016

What is admirable about Ivory Game is that it recognizes the complexity of the issues. Read full review

IndieWire Eric Kohn

Nov 1, 2016

The Ivory Game may be a harsh wakeup call to anyone concerned about the future of the largest land mammal, but it’s also a keen evaluation of the efforts being made to correct the situation. Read full review

Matthew Anderson

Nov 3, 2016

The Ivory Game depicts humankind both at its deplorable worst and at its best. Its burning images will sear through conscience and consciousness but there is faint hope in the lasting hoof-print they leave. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Nov 3, 2016

The grim economic realities behind such trafficking are glancingly acknowledged. There’s real impact, though, in the anger and grief of law enforcement officials and conservationists when their tracking leads them to elephant carcasses. Read full review

Robert Yaniz Jr.

Nov 8, 2016

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. Read full review

Ken Jaworowski

Nov 3, 2016

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. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

Nov 2, 2016

Unlike a lot of other advocacy docs—films that seek to raise awareness regarding some serious issue, often concluding with a call to action—Netflix’s The Ivory Game offers something spectacularly visual: elephants. Read full review

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Manjit

Jan 26, 2017

This is a well written and well Directed documentary focusing on a brutal trade in Ivory. The documentary does a great job in highlighting the African peoples struggles to make a living, protect their farmlands and also how politics from the highest level in far east Asia are key to bringingThis is a well written and well Directed documentary focusing on a brutal trade in Ivory. The documentary does a great job in highlighting the African peoples struggles to make a living, protect their farmlands and also how politics from the highest level in far east Asia are key to bringing the trade to a crushing halt. Well done Leonardo and please keep up the good work!… Expand

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geewah

Jan 5, 2021

An important doco that doesn't pretend to know all the answers and shines a light on to what is a cruel and greedy industry.

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Jcondic

Nov 21, 2016

The Ivory game marks the second documentary between Netflix and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way. Virunga really brought the issue of protecting species vs. monetary value and how the hunger for money with the locals and greed from big corporations puts the gorillas and their habitat at risk.The Ivory game marks the second documentary between Netflix and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way. Virunga really brought the issue of protecting species vs. monetary value and how the hunger for money with the locals and greed from big corporations puts the gorillas and their habitat at risk. Now the Ivory Game comes at you like a thriller, and again showing the battle between corruption and greed vs. Protecting a species from extinction. Unlike Virunga where they wanted to kill the animals to get to the oil under the jungle. Ivory game discusses how it is beneficial for them to have less elephants because the value of Ivory rises. I found the documentary had a sense of urgency about it but it also showed the sacrifice of the people trying to protecting the animals and like in Virunga they are fighting a losing battle. They need more help to turn the tables. For me the shots of the elephants when they are scared, or find a dead elephant are the most powerful, you can’t help but feel their pain. They understand loss and it’s not easy to take in.… Expand

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