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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.
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Dec 10, 2015 · Winding the clock back to 1819, Tom begins the story of the whaling ship, the Essex, and its first mate, Owen Chase, a role that once would have belonged to Burt Lancaster and which Mr....
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In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. 7,751 IMDb 6.9 2 h 1 min 2015. X-Ray HDR UHD PG-13. Adventure · Action · Harrowing · Intense. Available to rent or buy. Rent. UHD $2.89. Buy. UHD $12.99. More purchase.
May 8, 2000 · In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex - an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick.
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Dec 11, 2015 · The film is an adaptation of Nathaniel Philbrick’s best-selling book about the 1820 tragedy of the whaling ship Essex, which reportedly inspired Herman Melville to write Moby Dick.
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This is a 2015 film based on a 2000 non-fiction novel, about the sinking of the Nantucket whaling ship the Essex in 1820, which inspired Herman Melville's Moby Dick, published in 1851. The movie frames the story with one of the Essex survivors telling the story to Melville in 1850.
3.89. 1,354 ratings135 reviews. In one of the most spellbinding accounts of men who go down to the sea in ships, the modern reader is given a seat in the whale boat of Owen Chase as he and his fellow crew and their Captain make way in three boats after the wreckage of the Whaleship Essex.
