Lisa Leeman’s muddled documentary One Lucky Elephant introduces the kindly circus ringmaster David Balding, who met a year-old African elephant sixteen years ago and turned her into a freakish amalgam ...

An orphan befriends an elephant that learns to paint and becomes a famous artist. Later, the elephant falls in love with another pachyderm, leaving his human friend completely alone.

Michael Webber’s documentary The Elephant in the Living Room (2010) makes such a powerful case against private ownership of exotic wild animals that this portrait of circus owner David Balding and his ...