Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World

About Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World

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.

Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World (2010) is a documentary history film directed by Ric Burns.

Willem Dafoe appears as Narrator, Robert Sean Leonard as Herman Melville (voice), Josh Hamilton as Owen Chase & Peleg Folger (voice), and Vincent Kartheiser as Thomas Nickerson (voice). It runs 120 minutes and was released in May 2010.

The screenplay is by Ric Burns. In the United States it streams on PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel.