Product Description

This is the incredible story of explorer Ernest Shackleton’s heroic attempt to lead the first expedition across the last unknown continent of Antarctica in 1914-16. During this voyage, his ship, the Endurance, became locked in sea ice, and for nine months Shackleton fought a losing battle with the harsh elements before the drifting ship was crushed and his crew marooned. Shackleton’s amazing voyage then took him and his men across 600 miles of unstable ice floes to a desolate rock called Elephant Island. He and a crew of four there faced the seemingly impossible task of crossing 850 miles of the worst seas on earth in a twenty-two foot open boat to make a landing on South Georgia Island. As if this wasn’t enough, they then had to traverse over twenty miles of treacherous mountainous terrain to reach the nearest outpost of civilization. With historical photos and rare film footage, this astonishing story explores the limits of unparalleled human courage, and ranks Ernest Shackleton’s voyage among history’s greatest adventures.New location footage, specially-commissioned filmed reconstructions and expert authorities bring historical background and provide modern perspective to this unique film.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #131618 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-03-28
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 50 minutes

Customer Reviews

Watch Alongside "The Endurance"
In all fairness, the documentary "The Endurance" may have used this work as its stepping stone. "The Endurance" was longer, went into more detail, and clearly had a larger budget. Still, you may want to see both as this work went more into Shackleton's early years and previous voyages. "The Endurance" had foreign language subtitles when this work did not, by the way.

This work had few interviewees and they were non-diverse. However, Shackleton's crew was non-diverse and probably small in number too. One interviewee had a shaggy, graying beard that may have been a tribute to the same beards that you see on Shackleton's crew.

Talk about cheesy reenactments! This work clearly had no budget to try to accurately portray the past. They just took a bunch of fake snow and any old winter coat and hired any ol' unemployed actors and shot the scenes. Granted, it provides motion and dynamism to something that could have only had grainy, black-and-white photos. Still, the cheese factor is high!