Independent Lens

Season 25, Episode 15

Episode Title: One With the Whale

Air Date: 2024-04-22

Overview:

Hunting whales is a matter of life or death for the residents of St. Lawrence. When a shy Alaska Native teen becomes the youngest person ever to harpoon a whale for his village, his family is blindsided by thousands of keyboard activists brutally attacking him online—without full perspective on the importance of the hunt to his community's well-being.