Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World

Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World

Released on
Documentary, History
Runtime
120 mins
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Examine the American whaling industry from its 17th-century origins in drift and shore whaling off the coast of New England and Cape Cod, through the golden age of deep ocean whaling, the tragedy of the Essex, and the career of Moby Dick's Herman Melville, and on to its demise in the decades following the American Civil War.

Cast

  • Willem Dafoe
  • Robert Sean Leonard
  • Josh Hamilton
  • Vincent Kartheiser
  • Callie Thorne
  • Philip Bosco

Director

  • Ric Burns

Producers

    Screenwriter

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