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DVD : Shackleton - The Greatest Survival Story of All Time (3-Disc Collector's Edition)In association with Amazon.comstarring: Kenneth Branagh, John Grillo, Paul Humpoletz, Phoebe Nicholls, Eve Best directed by: Charles Sturridge  List Price: $19.95 Amazon.com's Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.96 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: A&E EAN: 9780767045001 Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0767045009 Label: A&E Home Video Manufacturer: A&E Home Video Number Of Items: 3 Publisher: A&E Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: April 09, 2002 Running Time: 200 minutes Studio: A&E Home Video Theatrical Release Date: April 07, 2002 Sales Rank: 14549 MPN: AAED70430D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 07/29/2003 Run time: 200 minutes Rating: Nr Amazon.com: Shackleton is not a biopic of the great Anglo-Irish explorer but a dramatization of the failed trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914-1916. As written and directed by Charles Sturridge (Longitude), the production, filmed on real ice floes in Greenland, stays remarkably close to the facts, capturing the look of the surviving expedition photos by Frank Hurley (collected in the book South with Endurance) with great fidelity. Kenneth Branagh makes no attempt at an authentic accent but otherwise gives a powerful impression of a most commanding personality. When the expedition ship Endurance became locked in the Antarctic ice, Shackleton vowed to bring every man home alive, and against virtually impossible odds, including a 700-mile journey in an open boat through some of the worst seas in the world, he did just that. This superlative miniseries realizes the story with production values and cinematography that would not disgrace a big-budget feature (South, Hurley's 1919 silent movie featuring some motion-picture footage from the expedition, is also available on video). Intense physical drama, strong performances, and Adrian Johnston's fine score combine here to deeply moving effect, marred only a little by a rushed conclusion. With Roland Huntford, author of the definitive Shackleton biography, as production advisor, this easily stands as the benchmark for all future comparable films. --Gary S. Dalkin Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Everything you could want as long as the truth about Shackleton doesn't matter to you. Gloriously filmed, with excellent acting, everything you could want as long as the truth about Shackleton doesn't matter to you. Have read about Shackleton I was struck over and over at how poorly he was conveyed, reduced to a shallow, yelling, man, when he was in fact calm, cool, and collected. How did the script writers fail to realize that a man who cannot control himself cannot control his men and the Shackleton story is in essence a study of successful leadership under extreme conditions ... Read More Rating:  - amazing film!I didn't expect this very high quality production when I ordered this . Excellent all around. Rating: - Shakleton...An okay movie loosely based on Ernest Shackleton's doomed voyage to the bottom of the world. The movie does its best to stick with his life from his diaries. This is a set of 3 dvds that give you a biography Shackleton, discovery channel of Anartica, and the movie itself. Rating: - A Superb CollectionThis is an absolutely superb collection. The A&E Shackleton, featuring Kenneth Branagh, is beautifully directed, powerfully acted and faithful to the facts of what happened. The danger here is that the adventure elements could be lost and the grinding facts of hunger, cold and life on the ice floe dominate. Without understating the challenges, the film captures all of the constituent elements--Shackleton's personal conflicts (and loves, both licit and illicit), the financial ruin of his brother ... Read More Rating: - Superb historical drama with some great actingThe story of Ernest Shackleton's grandiosely-named Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition is a pretty amazing one, which I will not summarise here as other reviewers have already done so. Yet there is another story to this film - how one man fought against self-doubt, the hostility of the authorities and the indifference of the public, ultimately to rise triumphant out of a difficult situation and prove his true worth. I'm talking, ladies and gents, about the acting career of Kenneth Branagh. ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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