Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World
MovieTitle | Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World |
User score | 0 |
Release date | May 10, 2010 |
Genre | Documentary, History |
Director | Ric Burns |
Production country | US |
Production companies | Steeplechase Films |
Run time | 120 min. |
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.