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Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd. His first three books gained much contemporary attention (the first, Typee, becoming a bestseller), but after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime. When he died in 1891, he was almost completely forgotten. It was not until the "Melville Revival" in the early 20th century that his work won recognition, especially Moby-Dick which was hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. He was the first writer to have his works collected and published by the Library of America.
Most Popular Herman Melville Trailers
Total trailers found: 38
24 March 2003
Machine shop entrepreneur Partanen has severe work pressures and his life is messed up. The foundation of Partanen's life is work.
10 October 1969
Bartleby, an enigmatic man who calmly refuses to carry out his duties, is introduced in this period dramatization of Melville’s haunting story as a scrivener in a 1969 film production of Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation.
01 May 1970
French short adaptation of Herman Melville's classic. The employee of a lawyer is in a mental hospital following a scandal.
27 March 2007
Follows the creation of a stage play adaptation of "Moby Dick".
20 September 1930
Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
11 December 1966
A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Billy Budd be hanged for murder?
11 March 1997
John Dexter’s brilliant production of Britten’s searing opera stars Dwayne Croft in the title role of the handsome young sailor whose kindness and innocence cause his downfall.
12 July 2015
In 1984, Mike Cartmell began Narratives of Egypt, a four-part series that deals with the father in Prologue: Infinite Obscure, the son in In the form of the letter “X”, the lover in Cartouche, and wraps it all up in Farrago, a word meaning: a medley, a heap of fragments.
01 January 1953
'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on television.
27 June 1956
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale.
12 May 1999
A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends.
01 January 1975
In 1841 young Ishmael signs aboard the whaling ship Pequod, under the command of the strict, one-legged Capt.
23 November 2010
That infamous whale is bigger, badder and a whole lot stronger in this sci-fi reimagining of Herman Melville’s classic tale of the battle between man, sea and sea creature starring “Xena” alum Rene O’Connor as the (traditionally male) narrator.
07 February 1972
The television play begins with the story of Ishmael, an American sailor who sets out on a whaling voyage.
13 February 2008
When Ahab's mother dies in childbirth, the infant's gruff father places his son in the care of his pious aunt.
30 October 1970
An asocial and enigmatic office clerk refuses to do his work, leaving it up to his boss to decide what should be done with him.
01 January 1976
Adaptation of the novel "Bartleby the Scrinener: A story of Wall Street" (1853) by Hermann Melville.
09 June 1949
The curse of a shark god follows a group of people who have violated a sacred jungle idol.
03 May 2000
Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti.
12 November 1962
Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
10 March 2001
An adaptation of Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" told in the setting of a modern office.
19 May 2004
The film follows a young Achab and the events that inspire his eventual journey to the sea.
01 January 1996
Animated feature about a young whale named Moby Dick.
24 January 2022
Filmed primarily at sea onboard an active fishing trawler, Ishmael is a blending of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick with a personal story of a battle with terminal illness.
01 May 2000
An unfinished 1971 film project in which Orson Welles performs readings from Moby Dick against a minimalist blue-screen setting, conceived as a stylized, abstract adaptation but never edited or completed.
06 April 2017
An unassuming Wall Street lawyer finds himself beset by a new employee, Bartleby, who refuses to work--in an ongoing act of passive refusal, he simply 'prefers not to.
08 November 1958
Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.
16 June 1955
A meta-theatrical adaptation of Moby-Dick in which a rehearsal evolves into a full performance, as actors are absorbed into the roles of Ishmael, Starbuck, and Ahab in a stripped-down, imagination-driven staging.
14 May 1954
The demented, ruthless Captain Ahab pursues the white whale which took off his leg years before.
15 January 1926
Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."
27 November 2022
An adaptation of Moby Dick as a silent film and theatre piece with a postcolonial and queer reading that highlights its marginal characters.
12 March 1931
Ahab pursues a whale that chewed off a leg when his brother, vying with him for the hand of a minister's daughter, pushed him overboard.
08 February 2021
From the 17th floor of an office building, Pierre is staring out a colleague that is here for hours.
31 December 2022
Whaling has been around for centuries. It seems to be the fruit of man’s violence, destroying himself by destroying nature.
15 March 1965
A French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had survived for many years her husband and brother, who have died while searching for mysterious valuables.
13 October 1971
When Captain Amaso Delano approaches a three-masted ship in distress to offer his assistance, he discovers a most unusual situation: its captain, Don Benito Cereno, seems to command a very scant crew, moreover composed only of Africans.
01 December 1978
A one-man version of Herman Melville's classic 1851 novel Moby Dick. The film stars Jack Aranson, a Shakespearean actor trained in the Old Vic.
31 January 2017
The premiere of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd in Madrid is undoubtedly one of the highlights of the Teatro Real's bicentennial celebrations.
