Williamsburg Regional Library

Arctic passage, An ITN Production for WGBH/NOVA and Channel Four ; additional production for NOVA by Zerkalo, Inc. ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; executive producer for ITN, Julian Ware ; senior series producer [NOVA], Melanie Wallace ; produced and directed by Louise Osmond ; narration written by Chris Schmidt

eng

videorecording

Not rated

Arctic passage

videorecording

68132831

An ITN Production for WGBH/NOVA and Channel Four ; additional production for NOVA by Zerkalo, Inc. ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; executive producer for ITN, Julian Ware ; senior series producer [NOVA], Melanie Wallace ; produced and directed by Louise Osmond ; narration written by Chris Schmidt

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Features dramatizations of two sagas in the quest for the Northwest Passage by 19th and 20th century explorers. The first part of the program describes how Sir John Franklin led an unsuccessful expedition searching for an Arctic sea route in the 1840s. It tries to solve some of the mysteries surrounding the seeming disappearance of the expedition members. The second part details how, a half-century later, Roald Amundsen attempted the same expedition and examines the success of Amundsen's voyage due to the help he received from the Inuit people of Northern Canada

[Part I]: Prisoners of the ice (ca. 53 min.): First clues -- Artifacts -- Trapped -- Witness testimony -- A grisly discovery ; [Part II]: Ice survivor (ca. 51 min.): Arctic obsession -- Preparations -- Following Franklin -- First contact -- A change of plans -- Vindication

adolescent

live action