The winter of 1820 saw the New England whaling ship Essex attacked by a massive whale with a sense of vengeance, inspiring Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. The real-life maritime disaster's aftermath reveals the harrowing struggle of the surviving crew to stay alive, facing storms, starvation, panic, and despair.
In the Heart of the Sea
A dramatic retelling of the ill-fated voyage of a 19th-century whaling ship that was sunk by a massive whale in 1820, an event that would later serve as the basis for Herman Melville's classic literary masterpiece, Moby-Dick.