Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World (movie)

Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World (movie)

  • Production country: US
  • Producer: Ric Burns
  • Production companies: Steeplechase Films
  • Genre: Documentary, History
  • Release date: 5/10/2010
  • Run time: 120 min.

Movie description

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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Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe

Role(s): Narrator

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Robert Sean Leonard

Robert Sean Leonard

Role(s): Herman Melville (voice)

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Josh Hamilton

Josh Hamilton

Role(s): Owen Chase & Peleg Folger (voice)

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Vincent Kartheiser

Vincent Kartheiser

Role(s): Thomas Nickerson (voice)

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Callie Thorne

Callie Thorne

Role(s): (voice)

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