THEME EXPLORATION

whaling

2 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS

Down to the Sea in Ships
1949 · Henry Hathaway

Moby Dick *
1956 · John Huston

DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS

Werner Herzog Germany

His documentary 'Grizzly Man' and philosophical approach to nature's sublime violence explore humanity's obsessive relationship with wild creatures, paralleling the whaling obsession.

Howard Hawks United States

Directed 'In the Heart of the Sea' (2015), a direct dramatization of the true whale-hunting disaster that inspired Moby Dick.