Shackleton (film)

Shackleton (film)

"Shackleton" is a 2002 British television film broadcast in two parts by Channel 4. Directed by Charles Sturridge, the cast includes Kenneth Branagh in the title role, along with Kevin McNally, Embeth Davidtz, Danny Webb and Phoebe Nicholls (also the director's wife) as Lady Shackleton. It was filmed in the UK, Iceland and Greenland. The film used first-hand accounts by the men on the expedition to re-tell the story, and Roland Huntford, the author of the definitive Shackleton biography, was a production advisor.

In North America it was broadcast on the A&E Network. The film was nominated for seven Emmy Awards, six BAFTA Awards and a Golden Globe Award.fact|date=May 2008

Plot summary

The films tells the true story of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his 1914 Antarctic expedition on the ship "Endurance". After the ship is trapped and then crushed by pack ice, Shackleton vows to find rescue for his men. He undertakes an epic journey across ice, 800 miles of the Southern Ocean and an uncharted mountain range on South Georgia Island, to find a whaling station from where he rescues his entire shipwrecked party. Not a single man died in this real life epic adventure.

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