Modern technology confronts ancient ritual in this profound and moving documentary ... vastly from the rest of the US – for one, hunting whales holds the key to the islanders’ survival.

As imagination replaces reality, they find themselves on the ocean, hunting for a whale. A big, gentle whale appears, accompanies them back to land and plays with them. Then the fantasy ends and ...

The BBC describes it as a “fascinating deep dive into the complex hunting methods and communication techniques of the ocean’s greatest predator – the killer whale”. In a remote corner of ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/whaling-interview-dr-tim-d-smith/ As part of the decade long Census of Marine Life project, Dr. Tim D. Smith ...

and deep-ocean whaling commences. For the next century and a half, Nantucketers will specialize in hunting sperm whales. Tryworks -- brick oven furnaces used to render oil from whale blubber ...

After years of lobbying from conservation groups, the SeaWorld theme park in California is phasing out its public displays by killer whales. Two years ago a critical documentary led to SeaWorld ...

A production of the Documentary, Experimental & Animation Film Center (DEFC), the documentary film has been selected for the documentary competition section of the upcoming edition of the CIFF, Mehr ...