Captain Ahab, who led the ill-fated quest for Melville's great white whale, Moby-Dick, may have been misunderstood. Today, it appears he has much... Was Captain Ahab Ahead of His Time? Is it possible?

There's much to like in the sweeping tale of how a resourceful orphan grew up to become the fearless harpoonist and seeker of the great white whale. By Ray Bennett, The Associated Press Locarno ...

Cory McAbee, the ingenious, idiosyncratic talent behind The American Astronaut and Stingray Sam, is on the festival circuit at the moment with his most recent film, the 50-odd-minute Crazy and Thief. ...

If you're familiar with Herman Melville's classic, "Moby-Dick," you know that the title character -- an enormous white whale -- destroyed a whaling ship commanded by Captain Ahab. That set the ...

The American tenor Jay Hunter Morris describes his role performing Captain Ahab in “Moby-Dick,” composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer’s award-winning opera performed by the San Francisco ...

Captain Ahab, a 3-foot, 40-pound wooden statue, takes a hot air balloon ride over western Massachusetts with Worthington Ballooning owner Paul Sena. Captain Ahab was on display at a recent assembly at ...

"Captain Ahab" vividly imagines the formative years of Captain Ahab. Ahab’s gruff woodsman father (Jean-Francois Stevenin) narrates the first chapter, starting from his wife’s death in childbirth, ...

Is it possible? Could Ahab — the peg-legged ship's captain who leads that ill-fated quest for the great white whale in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick — have been misunderstood. To most, especially those ...

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In “Captain Ahab,” French writer-helmer Philippe Ramos vividly imagines the formative years of the antagonist of Herman Melville’s classic “Moby Dick.” Told in five chapters, from Ahab’s birth to his ...

In the 1956 film production of Moby-Dick, Gregory Peck played a fanatical Captain Ahab. Is it possible? Could Ahab — the peg-legged ship's captain who leads that ill-fated quest for the great white ...