Inside Whale Hunting

Above the Arctic Circle, men paddling fragile, sealskin boats hunt a 60-ton animal. The beast they seek is a mystery of the deep. Now, bowhead whales are thriving but the hunt is endangered. And as the Arctic melts, a tradition that has lasted for millennia may be coming to an end. "Inside Whale Hunting" follows one crew of Inupiaq Eskimo whalers as they engage in the annual spring bowhead hunt on thinning sea ice near Barrow, Alaska, to capture and kill an animal they both hunt and revere... (official distributor synopsis)