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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2000)

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition poster
Original title
The Endurance - Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Directed by
George Butler
Genre
documentary film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 37m
Rated
G
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 44 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells the story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition. It focuses on how the crew survived after their ship Endurance was trapped and crushed by ice.

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What happens

The Endurance is a 2000 documentary film directed by George Butler about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition in 1914. It is based on the book of the same name. Endurance was the name of the ship of Shackleton's expedition. Butler followed it up the next year with another documentary about Shackleton's expedition titled Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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