The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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Released Oct 19, 2001

1h 33m

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"The Endurance" recounts one of the history's greatest tales of survival, Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1916 expedition to Antarctica. The expedition, Shackleton's third, followed the tragic death of the famous English polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott on his quest to the South Pole.

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The Endurance presents exciting footage of an amazing real-life story of survival.

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Geoff Pevere

Toronto Star

Fascinatingly evokes not just the gruelling, first-person details of this particular polar expedition, but the waning moments of the entire spirit of romantic, white-European Boy's Own adventurism.

Feb 1, 2002

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Footage from a remarkable silent documentary has been combined with new photography, music and a narration to produce an even more remarkable sound documentary.

Rated: 3.5/4

Jan 4, 2002

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John Petrakis

Chicago Tribune

Most of all, it is a salute to Shackleton himself, whose calm and grace under extreme pressure helped guarantee that not a single crew member would be lost.

Jan 3, 2002

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Phil Hall

Film Threat

So-so documentary on ill-fated South Pole journey.

Rated: 2.5/5

Dec 8, 2002

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Ryan Cracknell

Apollo Guide

The interesting and almost unbelievable subject matter legitimizes the legend of Ernest Shackleton, even if it is a little slow in the process.

Rated: 70/100

Sep 18, 2002

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Eric D. Snider

EricDSnider.com

Rated: A

Sep 18, 2002

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An already miraculous story of survival during one of the most dangerous journeys ever embarked on is seriously catapulted into thrill ride territory with the wonderful editing, musical score and meditative narration.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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Audience Member

Amazing story! Rent it.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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Audience Member

What an amazing documentary! Low wages, bitter cold, return to safety doubtful. Seriously, stuff like this amazes me...one that they even attempted this, two the perseverance to survive and three, the grace that watched over all 28 of them as none of them died during this 21month ordeal. Beautiful scenes, loved that 3 expert clibers tried to follow in their footsteps with high tech gear and food, took three days what these guys did in 36hrs and the photos and movies actually taken by those on the expedition.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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Audience Member

"Ship and stores have gone, so now we'll go home."

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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Audience Member

nothing short of amazing, one of my all time fav. docs

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Audience Member

remarkable documentary

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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George Butler

Director

Liam Neeson

Narrator

Caroline Alexander

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Caroline Alexander

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Joseph Dorman

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Caroline Alexander

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Synopsis

"The Endurance" recounts one of the history's greatest tales of survival, Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1916 expedition to Antarctica. The expedition, Shackleton's third, followed the tragic death of the famous English polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott on his quest to the South Pole.

Director: George Butler
Producer: George Butler
Screenwriter: Caroline Alexander, Caroline Alexander, Joseph Dorman
Distributor: Cowboy Pictures
Production Co: American Museum of Natural History, Discovery Channel Pictures, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Nova
Rating: G
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 19, 2001, Wide
Box Office (Gross USA): $2.5M
Runtime: 1h 33m
Sound Mix: Mono
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)