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The Whale is a British film of genre Drama with Martin Sheen
The Whale (2013)
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Add to a movie listThe Whale is a British television film that was first broadcast on BBC One on 22 December 2013. The film, about the Essex incident in 1820, which also formed the basis of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, was written by Terry Cafolla. The Whale will also broadcast on Animal Planet in the United States in summer 2014.
Synopsis
Thomas Nickerson (Martin Sheen) recalls his past as a cabin boy on the Essex whaling ship.Actors
Martin Sheen
(Tom Nickerson)
Jonas Armstrong
(Owen Chase)
Adam Rayner
(Captain George Pollard)
David Gyasi
(Richard Peterson)
John Boyega
(William Bond)
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