‘Free Willy’ star Keiko became the first captive orca to be fully released back into the ocean When Free Willy hit theaters in 1993, audiences fell for the story of a boy who frees a captive orca.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has greenlit a new feature documentary about Keiko, the orca who became world famous after appearing in the ...

David Phillips, executive director of the San Francisco-based Free Willy-Keiko Foundation, said Keiko had been in good health but started showed signs of lethargy and loss of appetite on Thursday.

Today we want to take you through Episode 2 of “The Good Whale,” in which Keiko travels north for thousands of miles. He leaves behind his puny pool at the amusement park in Mexico, his doting staff ...

This week on the show we tried something new — something we’d never even considered before: a musical number. What happened was that Keiko disappeared for a while. There was this monthlong gap in the ...

When Free Willy hit theaters in 1993, audiences fell for the story of a boy who frees a captive orca. What many moviegoers didn’t know was that the whale playing Willy was living a far less triumphant ...