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Dec 21, 2001 · The Endurance: Directed by George Butler. With Liam Neeson, Julian Ayer, John Blackborow, David Cale. A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton 's ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in 1914-1916, featuring new footage of the actual locations and interviews with surviving relatives of key expedition members, plus archived audio interviews with expedition members, and a generous helping of the ...
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Oct 19, 2001 · The Endurance presents exciting footage of an amazing real-life story of survival. "The Endurance" recounts one of the history's greatest tales of survival, Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1916 ...
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- Endurance Is Locked in by Ice
- Survival on An Ice Floe
- Marooned on Elephant Island
- 'My Name Is Shackleton'
- Rescue Mission to Elephant Island
- Shackleton's Early Death
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Endurance had left South Georgia for Antarctica on December 5, 1914, carrying 27 men (plus one stowaway, who became the ship’s steward), 69 dogs, and a tomcat erroneously dubbed Mrs. Chippy. The goal of expedition leader Shackleton, who had twice fallen short—once agonizingly so—of reaching the South Pole, was to establish a base on Antarctica’s We...
In the time that passed between abandoning Enduranceand watching the ice swallow it up completely, the crew salvaged as many provisions as they could, while sacrificing anything and everything that added weight or would consume valuable resources— including bibles, books, clothing, tools and keepsakes. Some of the younger dogs, too small to pull th...
It was the first time they had been on dry land since leaving South Georgia 497 days previously. But their ordeal was far from over. The likelihood of anybody coming across them was vanishingly small, and so after nine days of recuperation and preparation, Shackleton, Worsley and four others set out in one of the lifeboats, the James Caird,to seek ...
There was no conceivable circumstance under which three strangers could possibly appear from nowhere at the whaling station, and certainly not from the direction of the mountains. And yet here they were: their hair and beards stringy and matted, their faces blackened with soot from blubber stoves and creased from nearly two years of stress and priv...
Once the other three members of the James Caird had been retrieved, attention turned to rescuing the 22 men remaining on Elephant Island. Yet, after all that had gone before, this final task in many ways proved to be the most trying and time-consuming of all. The first ship on which Shackleton set out ran dangerously low on fuel while trying to nav...
Ernest Shackleton never did reach the South Pole or crossed Antarctica. He launched one more expedition to the Antarctic, but the Endurance veterans who rejoined him noticed he appeared weaker, more diffident, drained of the spirit that had kept them alive. On January 5, 1922, with the ship at South Georgia, he had a heart attack in his bunk and di...
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Shackleton: With Kenneth Branagh, Eve Best, Mark Tandy, Embeth Davidtz. The true story of Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the South Pole, and his epic struggle to lead his twenty-eight man crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.
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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE FRGS FRSGS (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration . Born in Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland, Shackleton and his Anglo ...
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- Kathleen Shackleton (sister)
Mar 13, 2022 · The discovery, after 107 years, of Ernest Shackleton’s sunken ice breaker Endurance in the deep, icy waters of Antarctica is only the latest chapter in a gripping tale of heroism and survival ...
Jun 20, 2023 · SHACKLETON tells the true story of Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's (Kenneth Branagh) expedition to the South Pole in 1914. Shackleton and his 28-strong crew's endurance and resolve is put to the test, as they desperately try to survive after their ship is crushed by large drifting ice.
