Shackleton

Overview

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.

Network

• BBC Two

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• Michael Hayward

  ‘Putty’ Marston

  4 eps

• 

  David Schofield

  Sir Ernest Shackleton

  4 eps

• 

  David Rodigan

  Frank Wild

  4 eps

• Victoria Fairbrother

  Emily Dorman / Emily Shackleton

  3 eps

• 

Themes

• biography
• antarctica
• south pole
• historical drama
• polar exploration
• 1910s
• polar expedition
• ernest shackleton

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