Movie: Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World

Top 6 Billed 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)

Callie Thorne
Callie Thorne

(voice)

Philip Bosco
Philip Bosco

(voice)

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    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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    2010-05-10

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