American Experience Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World (Season 22, Episode 8)
TV-PG
TV Episode | 114 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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American Experience

Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World (Season 22, Episode 8)

TV-PG

TV Episode | 114 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The American Experience looks at the history of American whaling from its off-shore origins in the 17th century to the golden age of deep water whaling and the eventual decline in the decades after the Civil War.

Director

Ric Burns

Writer

Ric Burns

Producers

Ric Burns | Robin Espinola | Bonnie Lafave | Mary Recine

Composer

Brian Keane

Cinematographers

Paul Goldsmith | Buddy Squires

Editor

Li-Shin Yu

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Edit Released

Updated May 10, 2010

Release date

May 10, 2010 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

Nominated for 1 Oscar Award. Another 84 wins & 124 nominations

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17 cast members

Name	Known for
Philip Bosco Gideon Folger / Paul Macy (voice) Gideon Folger / Paul Macy (voice) See fewer	The Savages (2007)
D. Graham Burnett Self - Historian Self - Historian See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Margaret S. Creighton Self - Historian Self - Historian See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Willem Dafoe Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	Spider-Man (2002)
Andrew Delbanco Self - Writer Self - Writer See fewer	The Unmaking of A College (2022)
Eric Jay Dolin Self - Writer Self - Writer See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Mary K. Bercaw Edwards Self - Melville Scholar Self - Melville Scholar See fewer	Revenge of the Whale (2001)
Stuart M. Frank Self - New Bedford Whaling Museum Self - New Bedford Whaling Museum See fewer	History's Mysteries (1998)
Josh Hamilton Owen Chase / Peleg Folger (voice) Owen Chase / Peleg Folger (voice) See fewer	Eighth Grade (2018)
Vincent Kartheiser Thomas Nickerson (voice) Thomas Nickerson (voice) See fewer	Mad Men (2007)
Robert Sean Leonard Herman Melville (voice) Herman Melville (voice) See fewer	Dead Poets Society (1989)
Michael Moore Self - Marine Biologist Self - Marine Biologist See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Lisa Norling Self - Historian Self - Historian See fewer	Revenge of the Whale (2001)
Nathaniel Philbrick Self - Writer Self - Writer See fewer	In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
Russell J. Ramos Whaler Whaler See fewer	The Equalizer 2 (2018)
Callie Thorne Poem Reader (voice) Poem Reader (voice) See fewer	Necessary Roughness (2011)
Daniel Vickers Self - Historian Self - Historian See fewer	Leave of Absence (2007)