Shackleton (TV serial)

Shackleton is a 2002 British television film written and directed by Charles Sturridge and starring Kenneth Branagh as explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. The film tells the true story of Shackletons 1914 Antarctic expedition on the ship Endurance. The cast includes Kevin McNally, Lorcan Cranitch, Embeth Davidtz, Danny Webb, Matt Day and Phoebe Nicholls also the directors wife as Lady Shackleton. It was filmed in the UK, Iceland and Greenland. The film used firsthand accounts by the men on the expedition to retell the story. Shackleton biographer Roland Huntford was a production advisor.

The films tells the true story of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton Kenneth Branagh and his 1914 Antarctic expedition on the ship Endurance. The story begins with him planning the expedition and finding sponsors, particularly Sir James Caird. Shackletons goal is to drive dog sled teams from one side of Antarctica to the other, which would make Britain the first nation to undertake such a transcontinental journey.Once the expedition is underway, trouble arises due to thick sea ice and low temperatures. Endurance becomes trapped and eventually crushed by pack ice. Shackleton vows to find a way to rescue the men. He undertakes an epic journey across the ice, followed by 800 miles of the Southern Ocean and then an uncharted mountain range on South Georgia Island. He finds a whaling station from which rescues parties are sent to collect his entire shipwrecked crew. The otherwise failed expedition is made famous for every crew member surviving despite insurmountable odds. ........

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