Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World

Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World

2010 ""
Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World
Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World

Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World

8 | 2h0m | en | 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.

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8 | 2h0m | en | History , Documentary
Synopsis

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.

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Cast

Willem Dafoe , Robert Sean Leonard , Josh Hamilton

Director

Ric Burns

Producted By

Steeplechase Films ,