The Endurance
2000 · 97 MIN · IMDB 7.8 · 2,309 VOTES · DIR. George Butler
Overview
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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00:03:37 My father never...
00:06:55 ...viewed the famous explorer as a mere adventurer...
00:10:20 ...would improve.
00:15:21 The character of the pack has again changed. The floes are very thick.
00:20:12 Shackleton knew he could do better.
00:24:01 ...how much generosity and sympathy was shown by this.
00:29:23 The Endurance survived, but as winter turned to spring, assaults continued.
00:33:25 ...and to three of the ship's four lifeboats.
00:36:44 ...our chance of reaching safety will be greatly increased.
00:40:56 ...which was fuelled by penguin skin and seal blubber.
00:45:19 That the carpenter was only voicing...
00:48:31 Hurley paid a last tribute to his old companion.
00:51:50 ...it would be left to artist George Marston...
00:55:03 And this was manifested in different ways.
00:58:28 It was a year and four months since they had touched land.
01:02:41 ...to a port of call, even if it was only a lonely island where the sealers came.
01:06:40 Water from ice laboriously melted over a blubber flame was stored in kegs.
01:09:56 Even to attempt a sextant reading, he had to be braced by men on either side...
01:13:02 We stood offshore, tired almost to the point of apathy.
01:16:52 Taking advantage of the full moon and calm weather...
01:20:58 At 3 in the afternoon on May 20...
01:24:26 What little seal meat we have left is tainted.
01:27:04 ...the men were gathered in their hut for a lunch of boiled seal backbone.
01:31:06 ...but Shackleton withheld this honor from McNish and three others.