The Snake and the Whale
2025
Documentary / Crime / History
1 hr 36 min
English
Revealing propaganda maintaining the status quo, investigative journalism uncovers outdated dams on the Lower Snake River driving salmon and killer whale extinctions.
$500,000
When an apex predator is in decline, so too is its ecosystem. Investigative journalism exposes ongoing corruption in the US Congress, falsely claiming that four federally owned dams are crucial to the Northwest power grid, while hiding the fact that an ecosystem collapse is in progress. At stake are Idaho' Salmon and Steelhead runs -- once among the greatest runs in the world -- and the salmon-eating Southern Resident Orcas facing imminent extinction.
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- Gatekeeper Productions
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Ken Balcomb as Self
Ed Chaney as Self
Nakia Williamson-Cloud as Self
Howard Garrett as Self
Dr. Deborah Giles as Self
Top Crew
John Carlos Frey · Director, Writer
James Cude · Writer
Rob Gokee · Composer
James Cude · Editor
Carol Montgomery · Executive Producer
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