Which 2015 film about the Essex shipwreck was based on Nathaniel Philbrick's book of the same name?

The 2015 film about the Essex shipwreck based on Nathaniel Philbrick’s book was In the Heart of the Sea.

Directed by Ron Howard, the film adapts Philbrick’s 2000 nonfiction account of the whaleship Essex, a Nantucket vessel attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in the Pacific in 1820. The disaster became one of the inspirations for Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.

Chris Hemsworth plays first mate Owen Chase, while Benjamin Walker portrays Captain George Pollard. The cast also includes Cillian Murphy, Tom Holland, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson. The film dramatizes the crew’s struggle to survive after the shipwreck, including their dangerous open-boat voyage.

A common mix-up is The Whale, which is a separate 2013 television film about the same historical disaster. In the Heart of the Sea premiered in December 2015 and was released by Warner Bros.