Britain's Whale Hunters: The Untold Story

2014•59m

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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Seasons

2 Episodes • Premiered 2014

1. The Rise

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.

2. The Fall

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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