AMEX: Into the Deep: America, Whaling and the World - Public Performance
This item is included in the following series/curriculum: American Experience
- Grade Level: Senior High (10-12)-Adult
- Subjects: Life Science
- Produced By: PBS Distribution
- Year: 2010
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Running Time: 1h 20m
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America, Whaling, and the World Equal parts fantastic sea adventure, mythic saga of man versus beast, and cautionary economic and environmental tale, Ric Burns' Into the Deep is the thrilling, epic story of three centuries of whaling and the unique relationship between American whalers and the giant creatures they hunted. These mysterious, mammoth beings-both revered and reviled-fueled the expansion of the American economy and enabled Nantucket, a backwater Massachusetts colony settled by religious refugees, to become a capitalist power on a grand and global scale. At the height of the whaling industry, U.S. whaleships encircled the globe, a massive state-of-the-art fleet crewed by highly-skilled mariners whose ever-widening search for prey enabled them to chart the seven seas. Once slaughtered