Movie: The Islands and the Whales

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    The whale hunters of the Faroe Islands believe that hunting is vital to their way of life, but, when a local professor makes a grim discovery about the effects of marine pollution, environmental changes threaten their way of life forever.

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    2016-04-29

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    5.2

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