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Nov 27, 2000 · With Bob Clarke, Thomas Farel Heffernan, Nathaniel Philbrick, Stuart M. Frank. The whaler Essex sailed from Nantucket in 1819 and met its doom in the middle of the Pacific in 1820, when a sperm whale attacked, causing the ship to sink.
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- Documentary, History, Mystery
- Melissa Jo Peltier
- 2000-11-27
The dramatized documentary Revenge of the Whale (2001), was produced and broadcast on September 7, 2001, by NBC. The television movie The Whale (2013) was broadcast on BBC One on December 22, wherein an elderly Thomas Nickerson (played by Martin Sheen) recounted the events of Essex.
It is based on Nathaniel Philbrick's 2000 non-fiction book In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, about the sinking of the American whaling ship Essex in 1820, an event that in part inspired Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick.
Dec 11, 2015 · 2h 2m. IMDb RATING. 6.9 /10. 149K. YOUR RATING. Rate. POPULARITY. 3,432. 88. Play trailer 2:33. 42 Videos. 99+ Photos. Action Adventure Biography. A recounting of a New England whaling ship's sinking by a giant whale in 1820, an experience that later inspired the great novel Moby-Dick. Director. Ron Howard. Writers. Charles Leavitt. Rick Jaffa.
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- Action, Adventure, Biography
- Ron Howard
- 2015-12-11
HISTORIC ARTICLE. Nov 20, 1820 CE: Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. On November 20, 1820, the American whaling ship Essex was rammed by a sperm whale and sunk. The incident inspired Herman Melville’s famous novel Moby Dick. Grades. 4 - 12. Subjects. Social Studies, U.S. History, World History. Photograph. Attack on the Essex.
In 1819, the 238 ton Whaleship Essex set sail from Nantucket Island on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later the unthinkable happened. In the farthest reaches of the South Pacific,...
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The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged Sperm whale was the event that inspired the climactic scene of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But the point at which Melville's novel ends with the ...
