Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World

Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World

120 mins | Documentary, History | May 10, 2010

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.

Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World

120 mins | Documentary, History | May 10, 2010

Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World
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.
IMDb rating 8.1
Producers Steeplechase Films
Original title Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World
Directors Ric Burns
Writers Ric Burns

Cast

Willem Dafoe

as Narrator

Robert Sean Leonard

as Herman Melville (voice)

Josh Hamilton

as Owen Chase & Peleg Folger (voice)

Vincent Kartheiser

as Thomas Nickerson (voice)

Callie Thorne

as (voice)

Philip Bosco

as (voice)