Editing New Bedford, Massachusetts (section)

== In popular culture ==

In 2002, the movie ''[[Passionada]]'' was filmed in New Bedford, making it the first film to be shot in the city in 45 years.<ref>{{cite web|title=Passionada - Your link to SouthCoast Massachusetts and beyond|url=http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=SPECIAL14|access-date=November 19, 2011|publisher=SouthCoastToday.com|archive-date=February 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211132815/http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=SPECIAL14|url-status=live}}</ref> Previously, film director [[John Huston]] shot a scene for the movie adaptation of ''Moby-Dick'' in front of [[Seamen's Bethel]] in 1956. All other exterior shots were made in [[Youghal]] instead.

The 2011 movie ''Whaling City'', about the fight of an independent fisherman to save his boat and his way of life, is set in New Bedford and was filmed there.

New Bedford was the town where 100 brides in the 1968–1970 TV series ''[[Here Come the Brides]]'' came from prior to their arrival in 1860s [[Seattle, Washington]].

A character named New Bedford appeared on a ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode (in 2006) as a friend of another girl named Dakota. The show's fictional setting of Quahog, Rhode Island, is situated near New Bedford. In the tenth-season premiere "[[Lottery Fever]]", [[Peter Griffin]] mentions New Bedford while looking at scrimshaw of a whale sinking a whaling ship.

A board game set in the town called New Bedford was published in 2016. It focuses on building the town and the whaling industry.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/157413/new-bedford | title=New Bedford }}</ref>

In 2023, the movie ''[[Finestkind]]'' took place in New Bedford and [[Fairhaven, Massachusetts]]. The film was written and directed by [[Brian Helgeland]] and starring [[Ben Foster (actor)|Ben Foster]], [[Toby Wallace]], [[Jenna Ortega]] and [[Tommy Lee Jones]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/entertainment/2023/05/17/finestkind-new-bedford-movie-released-september-2023/70222800007/ | title=Finestkind}}</ref>