Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World (2010)

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.

Genres: Documentary, History

Stars: Willem Dafoe, Robert Sean Leonard, Josh Hamilton, Vincent Kartheiser, Callie Thorne