1983–1983 · BBC Two · Ended
Shackleton
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Having had a taste of Antarctic adventure on Captain Scott's failed 1901 bid to reach the South Pole, seven years later Ernest Shackleton leads his own expedition. Agonisingly close to reaching the Pole, the men have to pull back in an appalling blizzard to reach their ship before the advancing ice cuts off the passage home. By 1911 Roald Amundsen has reached the Pole and Scott and his men, trailing in the Norwegian's wake, have perished. Undeterred, in 1914 Shackleton and his trusted deputy Frank Wild set out on their most famous journey aboard Endurance, with the aim of crossing the icy continent from sea to sea.
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BBC TwoTV network · United Kingdom
Wednesday at 21:30 (Europe/London)
This series has ended.
Last aired
S01E04 · Cape Horn - or South Georgia?
1983-05-04
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Episodes
- E01
A Merchant Navy Man
1983-04-13 · 60 min
- E02
Our Dead Bodies Must Tell the Tale
1983-04-20 · 60 min
- E03
Men Wanted for Hazardous Journey
1983-04-27 · 60 min
- E04
Cape Horn - or South Georgia?
1983-05-04 · 60 min
