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The Endurance
The Endurance - Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
2000 · Film · documentary · 97 min
Directed by George Butler
Documentary on the Shackleton Antartic expedition. A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in and the crew of his vessel 'The Endurance', which was trapped in the ice floes and frigid open ocean of the Antarctic in 1914. Shackleton decided, with many of his crew injured and weak from exposure and starvation, to take a team of his fittest men and attempt to find help. Setting out in appalling conditions with hopelessly inadequate equipment, they endured all weather and terrain and finally reached safety. Persuading a local team of his confidence that the abandoned team would still be alive, he set out again to find them. After almost 2 years trapped on the ice, all members of the crew were finally rescued.
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off topic, but I recently read Alfred Lansing's "Endurance" and felt that was in spirit like "The Martian" although I remember the latter more from the film than the book.
> The famed vessel, which sank in 1915 after becoming stuck in pack ice, was discovered in 2022 resting at a depth of 3km below what Shackleton called “the worst portion of the worst sea in the world”.
> “Hurley gets this flare gun, and he fires the flare gun into the air with a massive detonator as a tribute to the ship,” John Shears, who led the expedition that found Endurance, told the BBC. “And then in the diary, he talks about putting it down on the deck. And there we are. We come back over 100 years later, and there’s that flare gun. Incredible.”
Hmm. 3km underwater, sunken 100+ years ago, and the flare gun is still just resting there?
> “Being able to bring those diary readings to life using AI means you’re listening to Shackleton and his team narrating their own diaries, and it is their voices,” said Jimmy Chin, one of the directors. “That was something that couldn’t have been done even a few years ago, which really brings a new aspect of the film to life.”
There's a show?
> Endurance will be at London film festival on 12 October, in UK cinemas on 14 October and on Disney+ later this year.
Disney! I get it now. Cool story bro!
"The Endurance" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264578/
"Shackleton's Captain" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1730698/
"Shackleton" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272839/
There was an expedition [0] to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent. The party's ship was stranded and subsequently destroyed by the ice. I won't spoil the story. Their epic ordeal was retold over and over, but there's a documentary that's really good. I think it's The Endurance (2000) [1]. Watch it if you get the chance.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264578/
Edit: I'm mentioning this, because I recognized a photo of a settlement (Grytviken) [2] in the article. The island is part of the story.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sandwich_Islands#/media/File:1989_Grytvikken_hg.jpg
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/127493/The_Endurance_Full_Documentary/
Very worth watching. I loved the way Shackleton changed his objective from getting to the South Pole to getting his men back home alive. A fitting name for the expedition.
And the trio of Worsley, Crean and Shackleton heading off on their own to a row boat to cross the Southern Antarctic Ocean to get help is simply legendary and worth retelling throughout history.
These images are amazing.
If you are interested in the subject I highly recommand the documentary about the whole survival trip:
The Endurance (2000) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264578/