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.
Willem Dafoe
Narrator
Robert Sean Leonard
Herman Melville (voice)
Josh Hamilton
Owen Chase & Peleg Folger (voice)
Vincent Kartheiser
Thomas Nickerson (voice)
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May 10, 2010
2h 0m
9.0
Ric Burns
Ric Burns
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Steeplechase Films
US
Callie Thorne
(voice)
Philip Bosco
(voice)
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