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‘Endurance’ Review: Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Voyage to the Icy Bottom of the Earth Comes to Life in a You-Are-There Documentary
A you-are-there documentary cuts between Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedition, which was all filmed, and the 2022 attempt to find the ship's wreck.
The fabled expedition of Ernest Shackleton, the Anglo-Irish explorer who led 27 men on a voyage to Antarctica in 1914 aboard the three-masted barquentine schooner Endurance, only to see his ship sink and to spend the next 500 days trying to survive and get back to civilization, sounds like something you read about in history books — or maybe a storybook. Later, after they’ve washed up on Elephant Island and are at the end of their tether, Shackleton takes five men in a whale boat to sail the 800 treacherous ocean miles to South Georgia, a land mass they then have to walk across, scaling mountains and traversing icy chasms. The movie uses enhancements like colorization and sound effects, the sort of thing I was against until I saw Peter Jackson’s revelatory World War I documentary “They Shall Not Grow Old.” The century-old silent footage in “Endurance” has been revamped with a respect for its verisimilitude.
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