
Release
13 Apr 1983Country
Language
EnglishProduction

A four-part drama adaptation about the life of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Based on Shackleton’s own journals. In 1914 Ernest Shackleton chooses to lead a team on their famous journey aboard the Endurance. When the ship is trapped and crushed by pack-ice, Shackleton and five of his men embark on a desperate 800-mile journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia.
Part one of a four-part serial dramatising the life of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton.
4 episodes