Synopsis
This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn when he struggled to support his impoverished family, then to his reckless pursuit of the attention and affection he craved for his work, to his death in 1892.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Mark ZwonitzerDirector
- Mark ZwonitzerWriter
Cast
- J.K. SimmonsNarrator (voice)
- Chris CooperWalt Whitman (voice)
- Walt WhitmanSelf (archive footage)
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Themes
poetrypoetamerican civil warwalt whitman