Films with: Melville, Herman

Beau travail

Story of a sergeant in the French Foreign Legion in Djibouti whose ordered life is turned upside down with the arrival of a new recruit who finds favor with the unit's commander. Loosely based on Herman Melville's Billy Budd.

DVD 1390

Billy Budd

An innocent, naive British Naval seaman is accused and tried of murdering the sadistic master-at-arms.

DVD 5850

Billy Budd an opera /

Dramatizes the moral dilemma of Captain Vere when, in accordance with Admiralty regulations, he must demand the court martial to sentence to death by hanging the innocent seaman who was provoked to strike and kill the villanous master-at-arms.

DVD 2823

Into the deep America, whaling & the world /

The history of the American whaling industry, from its 17th-century origins in drift and shore whaling off the coast of New England and Cape Cod, through the golden age of deep ocean whaling, and on to its demise in the decades following the American Civil War.

DVD 10304

Moby Dick

Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.

DVD 1502

Pola X

A young, successful author is haunted by a recurring dream of a woman obscured in darkness.

DVD 1395