Video Resources

Experience Moby-Dick in a more engaging, digital way

  • Moby-Dick Tour Through the New Bedford Whaling Museum
    7-minute tour of the New Bedford Whaling Museum guided by Institute Faculty members.

  • Call Us Ishmael
    This is the first film dedicated to meeting the people who keep the legacy of the text alive. Call us Ishmael chronicles filmmaker David Shaerf's journey into the world of Moby-Dick. Throughout his quest he encounters artists, musicians, professors, and performers, all of whom are singularly seeking the White Whale. Call Us Ismael gives us an insight into a community devoted to this timeless text.

  • American Whaling Mapped by Ben Schmidt
    Three-minute visualization of 19-century whaling voyages from logbooks collected in the 19th century by Lt. Matthew Maury,

  • Visualizing Melville: An Exhibition of Words, Ideas, Images, and Objects
    Presented by Michael P. Dyer, Curator of Maritime History, New Bedford Whaling Museum, during the the 2021 Moby-Dick Marathon, 54 minutes

  • Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ‘Round the World
    This 34-minute documentary by the New Bedford Whaling Museum moves through the 1848 panorama of a whaling voyage by Benjamin Russell and Caleb Purrington - the longest painting in the world, The panorama can also be viewed via the New Bedford Whaling Museum’s story map