Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World

    Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World
    2010

    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 DafoeNarrator
    • Robert Sean LeonardHerman Melville (voice)
    • Josh HamiltonOwen Chase & Peleg Folger (voice)
    • Vincent KartheiserThomas Nickerson (voice)
    • Callie Thorne(voice)
    • Philip Bosco(voice)
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