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- There's nothing magical about using wild animals for tricks. Animal Defenders International investigated into the Fercos Brothers, a circus where animals are confined to cages, and subject to abuse and suffering in order to perform tricks. The circus toured in South America when the footage was filmed.
- Raw footage of elephants subject to cruel training and suffering for movies like "Water for Elephants".
- Over seven months, 30 fur farms, seven hours of footage and one and a half thousand photographs, Animal Defenders International investigated a random sample of Finnish fur farms. This investigation exposes the terrible suffering that is part and parcel of the fur industry.
- Emmy award winning TV host Bob Barker narrates this video that was made by Animal Defenders International, its first national initiative in the US is about elephants subject to cruelty, abuse and suffering for rides, public appearances, movies and other media. The video contains undercover footage from inside elephant training facilities in California, and from inside Texas-based company that was on tour.
- During an investigation done by the ADI, it is revealed that animals are forced to live their miserable lives in barns when circuses are not touring. Some animals are denied water for many hours a day. Many other animals are tethered into tiny cells and pens, and thus unable to turn around or lie down in comfortably way. The animals' welfare are completely ignored. This video urges people to avoid circuses that use live animals.
- Despite claims that no animals were harmed, there are no happy endings for elephants provided for movies, neither for Tai who appeared in "Water for Elephants" with Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson, nor for Rosie who appeared together with Kevin James in "Zookeeper". Both of the elephants are back at the circus, forced to perform and give rides with El Zagal Shrine Circus in North Dakota. Workers at Have Trunk Will Travel, that provides elephants for movies and other media, are seen giving such animals cruel training by punching, beating them with bull hooks, and hitting them with electric shock devices.
- A short film about the work of the Lord Dowding Fund (LDF), which aims to stop animal testing and support science and medical research that does not involve animals.
- Animal Defenders International investigated into the Korean Monkey School, where monkeys were subject to cruel training in order to perform in "funny" shows.
- Have Trunk Will Travel is a supplier that trains elephants for movies, advertising, personal appearances, elephant rides, fairs and other public appearances. There, elephants are subject to cruel training, by getting shot with stun guns and beaten with bull hooks. Elephants are chained up to 12 hours a day, and can barely take a step forward or backward.
- Animal Defenders International went undercover inside Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Europe's largest primate facility that is located in Netherlands. There, primates are living in misery, pain and suffering, and are subjected to fatal cruelty and abuse before experiments even begin.
- In 2014, the Jalatoro festival was banned by the the authorities in Huamanga province, Ayacucho. However, the cruel festival still goes on, now under the name Pascua Toro. The event is disgraceful for bulls that are abused and tormented in front of screaming, drunken and thuggish people in the streets of Ayacucho.
- The ADI went undercover in the Polish fur industry that claims that "100% of the animals are dead within 10 seconds". However, the investigation reveals that despite that claim, foxes in fur farms are exposed to terror and pain. This video follows a fox that tried to escape, and fought for survival until the end.
- Have Trunk Will Travel is a California-based supplier that provides elephants for feature films and other media. Animal Defenders International did an undercover investigation inside this facility, where elephants are subject to beating and electroshock during training sessions and routine husbandry.
- What do you want for Christmas dinner? A terrified, crushed or kicked turkey? Prior to Christmas 2018, Animal Defenders International went undercover at a British free range turkey supplier, where turkeys are revealed to be subjected to terror and abuse. Not only do they live short, miserable lives, but they are also treated with brutality during their final hours of life, because they are grabbed and crushed into transport crated in order to be sent to slaughter. This video proves the fact just because a supplier is a free range farm, it doesn't mean it's 100% cruelty-free.
- This is the amazing story about how Toto the chimpanzee was rescued after two decades in South American circus, and returned to Africa.
- For bears, life is hell in circuses and county fairs. Bears in Texas-based James and Tepa Hall spend about 90% of their time in tiny cells in a prison truck, and are made to wear clothes and muzzles, dance and perform spectacular tricks for up to an hour a day as they tour the United States.
- Over the Easter holiday weekend in Ayacucho, Peru, there was an event called "Pascua Toro", in which terrified young bulls and cows were dragged from a truck and tormented by a screaming, shouting drunken mob in the streets. Animal Defenders International (ADI), along with other animal campaigners from Peru, have monitored and filmed the event, and condemned it as sickeningly brutal, barbaric.
- The truth about the treatment of animals in circuses. Filmed by Animal Defenders International, this video lifts the lid on the use and abuse of animals in entertainment including the violence used to train and control the animals; the small cages, temporary pens, and chains the animals live and die in; the long journeys; the unnatural conditions; the animals driven out of their minds by boredom and deprivation.
- Each year in February, animals are subject to cruelty and suffering, as they are used for rides and displays at the Riverside County Fair and Date Festival in California.
- In the Korean Monkey School, Animal Defenders International goes behind the scenes to reveal the cruel training and suffering monkeys are forced to endure, in order to perform in "funny" shows for unsuspecting but happy people.
- This documentary is about lions and tigers in ADI Rescue Center. Animal Defenders International did investigations and campaigns that resulted with challenging rescue missions, to save the big cats from Mozambique in 1996 up to date and their latest arrivals from a Portuguese circus in 2007.
- Animal Defenders International (ADI) investigated inside UCCU Events Center, where elephants used for children's rides ran berserk as workers tried to control them with bullhooks, metal bars and stun guns. While they weren't performing, these elephants were chained up and out of their minds.
- Every year, over 110,000,000 animals die on fur farms. Investigators from the ADI went undercover on a Polish fur farm where they placed hidden cameras in the place, and followed the tragic lives of a family of foxes who lived inside a tiny cage.