Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World (2010)

A look at the history of American whaling from its off-shore origins in the 17th century to the golden age of deep water whaling and the eventual decline in the decades after the Civil War.

120 minDocumentaryHistory

Directors

Ric Burns

Cast

Philip Bosco (as Gideon Folger & Paul Macy), D Graham Burnett (as D. Graham Burnett), Margaret S Creighton (as Margaret S. Creighton), Willem Dafoe (as Narrator), Andrew Delbanco (as Andrew Delbanco), Eric Jay Dolin (as Eric Jay Dolin), Mary K Bercaw Edwards (as Mary K. Bercaw Edwards), Stuart M Frank (as Stuart M. Frank), Josh Hamilton (as Owen Chase & Peleg Folger), Vincent Kartheiser (as Thomas Nickerson), Robert Sean Leonard (as Herman Melville), Michael Moore (as Michael Moore)

Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World (2010)

A look at the history of American whaling from its off-shore origins in the 17th century to the golden age of deep water whaling and the eventual decline in the decades after the Civil War.

120 minDocumentaryHistory

Directors

Ric Burns