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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

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Cast & crew

J.K. Simmons as Narrator (voice)

J.K. Simmons

Narrator (voice)

Chris Cooper as Walt Whitman (voice)

Chris Cooper

Walt Whitman (voice)

Walt Whitman as Self (archive footage)

Walt Whitman

Self (archive footage)

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