Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World

Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World

0 | 2010-05-10 | Documentary History

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.

Featured Crew

Li-Shin Yu Editor
Ric Burns Writer
Ric Burns Director

Cast

Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe
Narrator
Robert Sean Leonard
Robert Sean Leonard
Herman Melville (voice)
Josh Hamilton
Josh Hamilton
Owen Chase & Peleg Folger (voice)
Vincent Kartheiser
Vincent Kartheiser
Thomas Nickerson (voice)
Philip Bosco
Philip Bosco
(voice)

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