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Feature film — 2008
Walt Whitman (2008)
5.01h 49mDocumentary — History
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.
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PBS American Experience / PBS / GBH / Hidden Hill Productions
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Director: Mark Zwonitzer
On screen
Cast & crew

J.K. Simmons
Narrator (voice)

Chris Cooper
Walt Whitman (voice)

Walt Whitman
Self (archive footage)
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