Whale Rider (2003)

Whale Rider full movie is released on Aug 29, 2003. Watch Whale Rider online - the English Drama movie from New Zealand , which has achieved a worldwide gross of $41,062,976. Whale Rider is directed by Niki Caro and created by Niki Caro with Keisha Castle-Hughes and Rawiri Paratene. Whale Rider is available online on Hoopla and Kanopy.

On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.