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

A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton 's ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in 1914-1916, featuring new footage of the actual locations and interviews with surviving relatives of key ... See full summary »

Director:

George Butler

Writers:

Caroline Alexander (book), Caroline Alexander,

Stars:

Liam Neeson, Julian Ayer, John Blackborow

8 wins & 5 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Liam Neeson	...	Himself / Narrator (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Julian Ayer	...	Himself (Grandson of expedition member)
John Blackborow	...	Himself (Grandson of expedition member)
David Cale	...	Hubert Hudson (voice)
John Henry Cox	...	William Bakewell (voice)
Mary Crean O'Brien	...	Herself (daughter of Tom Crean)
Steven Crossley	...	Alexander Macklin / 'Chippy' McNish / James Wordie (voice)
Brian d'Arcy James	...	Frank Wild (voice) (as Brian Darcy James)
Drew De Carvalho	...	Frank Hurley (voice)
Dominic Hawksley	...	Thomas Orde-Lees (voice)
Roland Huntford	...	Himself (historian)
Ron Keith	...	Walter How (voice)
Tom McNeish	...	Himself (Grandson of McNish)
Simon Prebble	...	Ernest Shackleton (voice)
Paul Ricketts	...	Frank Worsley (voice)

Storyline

A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton 's ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in 1914-1916, featuring new footage of the actual locations and interviews with surviving relatives of key expedition members, plus archived audio interviews with expedition members, and a generous helping of the footage and still photos shot on the expedition.

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Plot Keywords:

expedition | antarctica | rescue | glacier | 1910s | 

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Genres:

Documentary | History

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Certificate:

G

Details

Country:

USA UK Germany Sweden

Language:

English

Release Date:

30 August 2002 (Spain)

Also Known As:

The Endurance

Filming Locations:

Antarctica

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$18,931 (USA) (5 October 2001)

Gross:

$2,452,566 (USA) (8 November 2002)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Discovery Channel Pictures, FilmFour, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min 90 min (TV premiere)

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Black and White Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Version of Icebound in the Antarctic (1982)

User Reviews

magnificent

At any point in this expedition, many would have given up or run out of ideas, but Ernest Shackleton's attitude reminds one of the Apollo 13 support crews in that failure was not an option. Everything great about the human species is seen in the efforts to discover an escape route from the pack ice, to find food in an almost lunar landscape and to send at least a few sailors to an island near the shipping lanes hundreds of miles from camp, the last chance for anyone to discover that Endurance's crew was still alive. Shackleton's refusal to give up, as well as resourcefulness in making unwasteful decisions, was the main reason for the rescue of the entire crew. Other than sled dogs, the antarctic didn't claim a single life

• from this crew, anyway.