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- 1. Rites of Passage Jul 6, 2005
- 1800:- Young Edmund Talbot is sailing to Australia to take up a government post, on a decrepit old ship skippered by Captain Anderson, who is hostile to Edmund until he realizes that he has important relatives. Far more admirable to Edmund are Lieutenants Summer, who has worked his way up through the ranks, and the dashing Deverel. His fellow passengers number demure ... Read all
- 2. Close Quarters Jul 13, 2005
- Tensions grow within the close confines of the ship. The safety of the increasingly dilapidated hulk is by no means assured and the situation is worsened when the foremast is damaged.
- 3. Fire Down Below Jul 20, 2005
- Edmund acts as a witness to the wedding between the injured Prettiman and Miss Granham, with flowers grown by the captain in his window boxes. Despite initial animosity towards him Edmund starts to show some admiration for the older man's liberal ideas. With the mast broken the ship is drifting perilously close to an ice-field but Benet saves the situation by pouring ... Read all
To the Ends of the Earth: With Benedict Cumberbatch, Jared Harris, Jamie Sives, Richard McCabe. In 1812, young British aristocrat Edmund Talbot travels by ship to Australia, and learns more about himself and about life than he had ever bargained for.
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- 2005-07-06
- Drama
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To the Ends of the Earth is a three-part BBC television miniseries adaptation of the trilogy of novels of the same name by William Golding. It premiered in the United Kingdom on BBC Two in July 2005, and in the United States on PBS as part of Masterpiece Theatre in October 2006.
- Period Drama
Aug 1, 2007 · To The Ends of The Earth. William Golding's classic sea trilogy, charting a young aristocrat's rite of passage, comes to life in a spectacular adaptation. It's 1812 and Edmund Talbot...
Watch To the Ends of the Earth with a subscription on Prime Video. Aristocrat Edmund Talbot (Benedict Cumberbatch) sails from England to Australia in the early 19th century.
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- Benedict Cumberbatch
To The Ends of the Earth is truly incredible. I watched it having been so impressed by Benedict Cumberbatch in the brilliant Sherlock. And he doesn't disappoint here, in fact once again in a performance wider in range perhaps than Sherlock he is amazing, as are the support actors.
Jul 7, 2016 · Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock) and Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) star in this epic miniseries about a journey of ruthless ambition, elusive love, and tragic misadventure, based on the award-winning...
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The trilogy as a whole was adapted by the late Leigh Jackson and Tony Basgallop for a 2005 BBC drama mini-series of the same name, directed by David Attwood and starring Benedict Cumberbatch. It aired in the United States in PBS' 2006 season of Masterpiece Theatre.