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Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World

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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.

Featured Crew

Li-Shin Yu
Editor
Ric Burns
Writer

Cast

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Willem Dafoe
Narrator
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Robert Sean Leonard
Herman Melville (voice)
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Josh Hamilton
Owen Chase & Peleg Folger (voice)
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Vincent Kartheiser
Thomas Nickerson (voice)

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