Join us for Wednesday Night Movies at the Library! This month, in honor of the Moby-Dick Marathon, we are showing four documentaries featuring whales and the ocean! The films start at 5:30 pm and will be shown in the following order:
April 6: A Life Among Whales (2005; 57 minutes): Weaving together natural history and biography, A Life Among Whales delves deeply into the unique relationship between humans and whales as told by renowned whale biologist and activist Dr. Roger Payne.
April 13: Leviathan (2012; 1 hour, 27 minutes): A documentary shot in the North Atlantic and focused on the commercial fishing industry.
April 20: Blackfish (2013; 1 hour, 23 minutes): A documentary following the controversial captivity of killer whales, and its dangers for both humans and whales.
April 27: A Plastic Ocean (2016; 1 hour, 42 minutes): Journalist Craig Leeson teams up with diver Tanya Streeter and an international team of scientists and researchers, and they travel to twenty locations around the world over the next four years to explore the fragile state of our oceans.
