Britain's Whale Hunters: The Untold Story
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Britain's Whale Hunters: The Untold Story

2014
1 season
2 episodes
Documentary

Adam Nicolson looks at how and why whale populations were so drastically reduced in the 20th century, and attempts to see whaling through the eyes of the time.

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  • Ep 1

    1.The Rise

    09-06-201459m

    Archive footage and testimony from the last of the whale hunters helps Adam Nicolson reveal what it was like to have hunted whales in Antarctica in the early 20th century.

  • Ep 2

    2.The Fall

    16-06-201459m

    Granted access to ruined whaling stations on South Georgia, Adam Nicolson continues to explore the role British whalers played in Antarctic whaling as late as the 1960s.

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