Michael Gambon
John Harrison
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Longitude: With Jeremy Irons, Anna Chancellor, Emma Kay, Samuel West. In two parallel stories, the clockmaker John Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea in the 18th Century and the horologist Rupert Gould becomes obsessed with restoring it in the 20th Century.
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- 2000-01-02
- Drama, History
- 200
Longitude is a 2000 TV drama produced by Granada Television and the A&E Network for Channel 4, first broadcast between 2 and 3 January 2000 in the UK on Channel 4 and the US on A&E. It is a dramatisation of the 1995 book of the same title by Dava Sobel.
- Period Drama
Longitude. Season 1. In the 18th century, without the means to measure longitude, ships were often lost at sea. England's Parliament offered a huge reward to anyone who could solve the problem. 181 IMDb 7.8 2000 2 episodes. X-Ray 13+. Documentary · Drama · Historical. Available to buy. Buy Episode 1. SD $1.99. Buy Season 1. SD $3.79.
- 93 min
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Aug 29, 2000 · Longitude is actually two stories set about 200 years apart; the first is set in the 18th. Century, about the carpenter, John Harrison (Michael Gambon), who believe that a clock impervious to extremes of temperature and the motion of a ship at sea will solve the problem of determining longitude.
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- A&E
- $46.73
- Action & Adventure
The story flip flops back and forth between the life of a shell shocked (literally) 20th century academic and the tale of an 18th century clockmaker, John Harrison, obsessed with winning the Prize of Queen Anne for calculating longitude.
Movie Re-Release Calendar 2024: Your Guide to Movies Back In Theaters ... Guardian There was a natural magnificence about Michael Gambon's performance as John Harrison in Longitude. Feb 25, 2020 ...
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