Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World
2010, English. Directed by Ric Burns.
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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Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World is streaming on PBS Documentaries in India.
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- 10 May 2010
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Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World (2010) was directed by Ric Burns and stars Willem Dafoe, Robert Sean Leonard, Josh Hamilton.