Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way Boards Dolphin Documentary 'Freeing Flipper'

A famous movie star named Leonardo DiCaprio has a movie company called Appian Way.

His company is helping to make a new documentary movie called 'Freeing Flipper.'

A documentary is a movie about real people and real events.

The movie tells the story of a man named Ric O'Barry.

In the 1960s, Ric trained dolphins for a popular TV show called 'Flipper.'

After his dolphin Kathie died in his arms, Ric felt he had to stop exploiting dolphins and started fighting to set captive dolphins free.

He founded an organization called the Dolphin Project and has spent more than fifty years trying to give dolphins their freedom.

The movie shows how dolphins are treated in places like marine parks and during dolphin hunts, and it includes amazing underwater pictures of dolphins.

Ric says every captive dolphin deserves a way home, and he wants people to see the story behind his lifelong mission.