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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.
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.
When British Parliament creates an award of twenty thousand pounds sterling to whomever can come up with a solution for determining longitude at sea, a carpenter-turned-clockmaker, John Harrison (Sir Michael Gambon), begins his experiments to build an accurate timepiece unaffected by sea travel.
Paralleling the story of 18th-century scientist John Harrison (Michael Gambon), who develops a clock to measure longitude, with that of Rupert Gould (Jeremy Irons), a...
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time is a 1995 best-selling book by Dava Sobel about John Harrison, an 18th-century clockmaker who created the first clock ( chronometer) sufficiently accurate to be used to determine longitude at sea—an important development in navigation.
Aug 29, 2000 · Gracefully adapted from Dava Sobel's extraordinary bestseller, the four-part TV production of Longitude combines drama, history, and science into a stimulating, painstakingly authentic account of personal triumph and joyous discovery.
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Can't think of anything better than Michael Gambon and Jeremy Irons for over 3 hours with a splash of Stephen Fry, Tim McInnery and Bill Nighy to lighten the journey a little. A fantastic film ...
After one too many maritime disasters due to navigational errors, the British Parliament set up a substantial prize for a way to find the longitude at sea.
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.