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Walk to Freedom (2012) Online
Original Title :
Walk to Freedom
Genre :
Movie / Documentary
Year :
2012
Directror :
Martin Guinness
Writer :
Martin Guinness
Budget :
AUD 75,000
Type :
Movie
Rating :
6.5/10

An emotional journey that reveals the mistreatment of elephants in Thailand and follows a rescue, mountain trek and release of a former trekking elephant to its freedom.

Walk to Freedom (2012) Online

An international group travel to Thailand and go behind the scenes at a Thai trekking park. They uncover the awful conditions that the elephants are kept in and the cruel way in which the elephants are trained. They also reveal how riding on the heavy seat on the back of the elephant crushes its spine. So first they learn the correct way to ride on an elephant and then lead a group of trekkers as they rescue an elephant and embark on a journey to release the elephant into the freedom of a sanctuary near the Burmese border.


User reviews

Gardataur

Gardataur

Until you watch this doco you would have no idea what is really going on with the elephants of Thailand. To witness the release of the gentle giant back to freedom was so moving.

I would recommend this to anyone who is considering going to Thailand, loves elephants or just likes to see some amazing people doing some amazing things. At the beginning I was shocked by what I saw but had no idea that the images were to become much worse. As a tourist I feel ashamed to have once ridden an elephant. If I had know 10 years ago what I know now I would never have visited some of the places I did. To think that for this one elephant who is now free there are thousands still chained up and living in terrible conditions