no animals were harmed in the making of
this video
hurt unfortunately the same cannot be
said for these films butterball be the
strongest I need you to give it all you
got Excel welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 movies that allegedly harmed
animals
for this list we’re looking at movies
and documentaries where filmmakers were
thought to have harmed animals and which
were instrumental in forcing subsequent
changes to standards and laws regarding
animal safety on movie sets I do not
feel I can condone such a question we’re
only considering scenes that were staged
by the crew for the camera so movies
like The Cove won’t make the cut and as
a heads up this list might disturb
sensitive viewers number 10 white
wilderness it’s a story both true and
false as we shall see in a moment an
oscar-winning documentary from the house
of mouse white wilderness follows the
lives of cute and cuddly arctic animals
their frenzy takes them tumbling down
the terrace creating tiny avalanches of
sliding soil and rock so what’s a
documentary doing on our list well it
features a shocking scene of lemming
suicide only the whole thing was faked
by Disney this is the last chance to
turn back
/ they go testing themselves bodily out
into space lemmings don’t really hurl
themselves into the sea at least not the
specific species featured here so
director James Algar helped them along
using a turntable to fake the migration
scene the crew forced the little guys to
jump off the cliffs and tumble down to
their watery doom number 9 The
Adventures of Milo and Otis Oh Milo Milo
said look at you are you alright Milo
hang out whether you’re watching the
Japanese original or the modified
English version the controversy raised
by the reported animal cruelty on the
set of this comedy drama remains the
same while it was alright except for
being wet The Adventures of Milo and
Otis may have been a box office hit in
its native country and earned positive
reviews in the US but various animal
rights organizations and movie watchers
still brought up concerns surrounding
reports that multiple animals had either
been killed or abused for the film
suddenly Otis started swimming away and
said to himself what am i doing that
bear is ten times my size those several
humane societies have associated
themselves with the adventure flick the
American Humane Association has never
been able to confirm or deny the animal
cruelty rumors so perhaps you should
watch the film and decide what you
believe or yourself you’re right I just
asked you have no idea what I’ve been
through
bears snakes even seagulls number eight
Cannibal Holocaust
here’s a movie that’s not for the faint
of heart
Cannibal Holocaust follows a group of
unscrupulous filmmakers who end up
angering the wrong bunch of natives
there’s the film back home this movie
was so violent that director Ruggiero
Deodato was tried for making a snuff
film
but while all the human actors escaped
unscathed the animal cast members
weren’t so lucky
a turtle is dismembered a monkey is
beheaded and that’s not counting the pig
snake spider and coati mundi that are
harmed it’s unbelievable it’s horrible
in other words this isn’t exactly a
family film
I want this material bird all of it
number seven Pat Garrett and Billy the
Kid director Sam Peckinpah wasn’t
exactly an animal rights activist in his
1969 classic The Wild Bunch he tortured
quite a few bugs to death but things got
worse during Pat Garrett and Billy the
Kid in this iconoclastic Western the kid
sharpens his six shooting skills by
firing at live chickens buried in the
sand Peckinpah actually blew their heads
off using explosive squibs and that’s
after an assistant sprayed lighter fluid
in their eyes to keep the birds from
falling asleep
hello bill it’s pretty fair Shooting
they’re all married man number 6 Andrei
Rublev while it’s a classic of Russian
cinema Andrei Rublev isn’t PETA approved
when a Tatar army invades a medieval
town they kill everybody including the
livestock in this distressing scene
director Andrei Tarkovsky coated a cow
in asbestos and set it on fire
while the cow was unharmed this poor
horse wasn’t so lucky purchased from a
slaughterhouse the horse was shot in the
neck pushed down a flight of stairs and
finally stabbed with a spear all in the
name of art number 5 the charge of the
Light Brigade one of the NATO is at the
supply cars broken a leg set loosely
based on real events this cinematic
spectacle features loads of romance
adventure and dead horses well you know
what to do carry on in the film’s
climactic battle screen legend Errol
Flynn leads a cavalry charge against an
overwhelming number of rebels and things
don’t end well especially for the
animals
using a special trip wire called the
running W filmmakers killed at least two
dozen horses and even one rider
fortunately Congress was so outraged it
banned the running W and implemented new
laws on how movie makers could treat
animals
number four then her a tale of the
Christ
horses had it rough and old Hollywood
especially the ones in ben-hur
thanks to second unit director B Reeves
Easton a man infamous for his disregard
of safety up to 100 horses were killed
during the epic chariot race horses that
didn’t die in accidents were shot when
injured even if they only had a limp
topping things off a stuntman died
during filming so it probably won’t come
as a surprise that Easton was the same
man responsible for the charge of the
Light Brigade
number three The Hobbit an unexpected
journey a 30 white horses on a Red Hill
middle-earth isn’t safe for hobbits or
elves but it’s downright dangerous for
barnyard animals Peter Jackson’s trilogy
is full of horses sheep and goats and
while none was harmed on screen he’s a
gentle soul who prefers the company of
animals to others 27 tragically died
off-camera
a night guard who’s a member of when
they weren’t on set the animals were
kept on a New Zealand ranch riddled with
hidden dangers it’s something very big
possibly quite dangerous
horses tore their legs on jagged fences
chickens were attacked by hungry dogs
and a pony broke its back after tumbling
down a cliff Misty Mountains cold we are
sure radagast the brown would have been
horrified it is the shadow of an ancient
horror number two Jesse James
I told pinky to get your horses ready
largely forgotten this Western was a
milestone in the history of animal
rights well let’s load him on a horse
and take him to town pursued by a posse
Frank and Jesse James leap off a cliff
into a roaring river but things didn’t
end well for Jesse’s faithful speed hold
on
hold tight Jesse cuz there’s only one
way out of here
the film crew covered the horses eyes so
it couldn’t see the drop and tricked it
into jumping 75 feet a fall it didn’t
survive
the stunt sparked nationwide outrage
giving rise to the American Humane
Association’s involvement in Hollywood
and their famous no animals were harmed
catchphrase before we unveil our top
pick here are a few honorable or in this
case dishonorable mentions one of them
did not submit to this old to pseudonym
power of habit
I love her so much I beat it with a whip
and she never get tired your wife no my
horse you know what I can’t right now
I’m peed in the giraffe she’s eating
carrots number one Heaven’s Gate
Michael Jimmy knows much hated Western
is the grisliest film in cinematic
history for animals anyway roosters were
forced to fight each other and cows were
sliced open so their intestines could
serve as props horses were bled from the
neck to provide extra gore and one was
reportedly blown up with dynamite
shamino refused to let the American
Humane Association on set but after his
film flopped new rules were set in place
that required the eh-eh-eh to be present
whenever an animal is on a film set
these men are under arrest by military
authority do you agree with our list
what do you think is the worst movie
that’s harmed animals for more
eye-opening top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
this video
hurt unfortunately the same cannot be
said for these films butterball be the
strongest I need you to give it all you
got Excel welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 movies that allegedly harmed
animals
for this list we’re looking at movies
and documentaries where filmmakers were
thought to have harmed animals and which
were instrumental in forcing subsequent
changes to standards and laws regarding
animal safety on movie sets I do not
feel I can condone such a question we’re
only considering scenes that were staged
by the crew for the camera so movies
like The Cove won’t make the cut and as
a heads up this list might disturb
sensitive viewers number 10 white
wilderness it’s a story both true and
false as we shall see in a moment an
oscar-winning documentary from the house
of mouse white wilderness follows the
lives of cute and cuddly arctic animals
their frenzy takes them tumbling down
the terrace creating tiny avalanches of
sliding soil and rock so what’s a
documentary doing on our list well it
features a shocking scene of lemming
suicide only the whole thing was faked
by Disney this is the last chance to
turn back
/ they go testing themselves bodily out
into space lemmings don’t really hurl
themselves into the sea at least not the
specific species featured here so
director James Algar helped them along
using a turntable to fake the migration
scene the crew forced the little guys to
jump off the cliffs and tumble down to
their watery doom number 9 The
Adventures of Milo and Otis Oh Milo Milo
said look at you are you alright Milo
hang out whether you’re watching the
Japanese original or the modified
English version the controversy raised
by the reported animal cruelty on the
set of this comedy drama remains the
same while it was alright except for
being wet The Adventures of Milo and
Otis may have been a box office hit in
its native country and earned positive
reviews in the US but various animal
rights organizations and movie watchers
still brought up concerns surrounding
reports that multiple animals had either
been killed or abused for the film
suddenly Otis started swimming away and
said to himself what am i doing that
bear is ten times my size those several
humane societies have associated
themselves with the adventure flick the
American Humane Association has never
been able to confirm or deny the animal
cruelty rumors so perhaps you should
watch the film and decide what you
believe or yourself you’re right I just
asked you have no idea what I’ve been
through
bears snakes even seagulls number eight
Cannibal Holocaust
here’s a movie that’s not for the faint
of heart
Cannibal Holocaust follows a group of
unscrupulous filmmakers who end up
angering the wrong bunch of natives
there’s the film back home this movie
was so violent that director Ruggiero
Deodato was tried for making a snuff
film
but while all the human actors escaped
unscathed the animal cast members
weren’t so lucky
a turtle is dismembered a monkey is
beheaded and that’s not counting the pig
snake spider and coati mundi that are
harmed it’s unbelievable it’s horrible
in other words this isn’t exactly a
family film
I want this material bird all of it
number seven Pat Garrett and Billy the
Kid director Sam Peckinpah wasn’t
exactly an animal rights activist in his
1969 classic The Wild Bunch he tortured
quite a few bugs to death but things got
worse during Pat Garrett and Billy the
Kid in this iconoclastic Western the kid
sharpens his six shooting skills by
firing at live chickens buried in the
sand Peckinpah actually blew their heads
off using explosive squibs and that’s
after an assistant sprayed lighter fluid
in their eyes to keep the birds from
falling asleep
hello bill it’s pretty fair Shooting
they’re all married man number 6 Andrei
Rublev while it’s a classic of Russian
cinema Andrei Rublev isn’t PETA approved
when a Tatar army invades a medieval
town they kill everybody including the
livestock in this distressing scene
director Andrei Tarkovsky coated a cow
in asbestos and set it on fire
while the cow was unharmed this poor
horse wasn’t so lucky purchased from a
slaughterhouse the horse was shot in the
neck pushed down a flight of stairs and
finally stabbed with a spear all in the
name of art number 5 the charge of the
Light Brigade one of the NATO is at the
supply cars broken a leg set loosely
based on real events this cinematic
spectacle features loads of romance
adventure and dead horses well you know
what to do carry on in the film’s
climactic battle screen legend Errol
Flynn leads a cavalry charge against an
overwhelming number of rebels and things
don’t end well especially for the
animals
using a special trip wire called the
running W filmmakers killed at least two
dozen horses and even one rider
fortunately Congress was so outraged it
banned the running W and implemented new
laws on how movie makers could treat
animals
number four then her a tale of the
Christ
horses had it rough and old Hollywood
especially the ones in ben-hur
thanks to second unit director B Reeves
Easton a man infamous for his disregard
of safety up to 100 horses were killed
during the epic chariot race horses that
didn’t die in accidents were shot when
injured even if they only had a limp
topping things off a stuntman died
during filming so it probably won’t come
as a surprise that Easton was the same
man responsible for the charge of the
Light Brigade
number three The Hobbit an unexpected
journey a 30 white horses on a Red Hill
middle-earth isn’t safe for hobbits or
elves but it’s downright dangerous for
barnyard animals Peter Jackson’s trilogy
is full of horses sheep and goats and
while none was harmed on screen he’s a
gentle soul who prefers the company of
animals to others 27 tragically died
off-camera
a night guard who’s a member of when
they weren’t on set the animals were
kept on a New Zealand ranch riddled with
hidden dangers it’s something very big
possibly quite dangerous
horses tore their legs on jagged fences
chickens were attacked by hungry dogs
and a pony broke its back after tumbling
down a cliff Misty Mountains cold we are
sure radagast the brown would have been
horrified it is the shadow of an ancient
horror number two Jesse James
I told pinky to get your horses ready
largely forgotten this Western was a
milestone in the history of animal
rights well let’s load him on a horse
and take him to town pursued by a posse
Frank and Jesse James leap off a cliff
into a roaring river but things didn’t
end well for Jesse’s faithful speed hold
on
hold tight Jesse cuz there’s only one
way out of here
the film crew covered the horses eyes so
it couldn’t see the drop and tricked it
into jumping 75 feet a fall it didn’t
survive
the stunt sparked nationwide outrage
giving rise to the American Humane
Association’s involvement in Hollywood
and their famous no animals were harmed
catchphrase before we unveil our top
pick here are a few honorable or in this
case dishonorable mentions one of them
did not submit to this old to pseudonym
power of habit
I love her so much I beat it with a whip
and she never get tired your wife no my
horse you know what I can’t right now
I’m peed in the giraffe she’s eating
carrots number one Heaven’s Gate
Michael Jimmy knows much hated Western
is the grisliest film in cinematic
history for animals anyway roosters were
forced to fight each other and cows were
sliced open so their intestines could
serve as props horses were bled from the
neck to provide extra gore and one was
reportedly blown up with dynamite
shamino refused to let the American
Humane Association on set but after his
film flopped new rules were set in place
that required the eh-eh-eh to be present
whenever an animal is on a film set
these men are under arrest by military
authority do you agree with our list
what do you think is the worst movie
that’s harmed animals for more
eye-opening top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
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