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| Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure (Large Format) | 
 enlarge | Director: George Butler (ii)
Actors: Kevin Spacey, Conrad Anker, Ciaran Hinds, Brett Swain, Reinhold Messner
Studio: Image Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $12.90
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 16612
Format: Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 41
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 1903
UPC: 014381190328
EAN: 0014381190328
ASIN: B00006FMCA
Theatrical Release Date: February 10, 2001
Release Date: September 3, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good...but not the best April 5, 2005
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is a good, overall telling of the exciting adventure of Earnest Shackleton's expedition attempt to transnavigate the South Pole. The videography is, as usual, quite spectatular.
However, two other recent versions of this amazing tale are both worth mentioning. "The Endurance - Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition" (2000), with Liam Neeson, and PBS NOVA's "Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance," (2002) with David Ogden-Stiers narrating, are both better accounts because you really get more of the in-depth impact of what did and could have gone wrong on the expedition. It is incredible that, in an era where tradegy from expedition travel was not that uncommon, the fact that all 27 men made it back alive - in such a harsh yet beautifully intriguing environment - is truly amazing. If the IMAX version captured your interest, these other two will rivet you to your chair.
 Sets very high standards of Human Courage and Endurance March 26, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A very inspiring concept executed very well by Imax. Full marks to them for doing so. Team leader Shackelton and his team of 27 men start from South Georgia for antarctic trip. Their ship is trapped in snow and they are forced to disembark. Hope to recover the ship as the ice melts keeps them near it for 4 months and tragically as the ice starts melting after 4 months it shatters and drowns the ship. Starting a journey on lifeboats and touching different grounds of ice and leaving so many of colleagues at different places, Shackelton finally reaches the land after 17 months and manages to go back with some help and get back all his men. A masterpiece of human courage and endurance that is very rarely seen. A must see
Amazing but short January 21, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Most of the Imax movies are short because they are to expensive to make, but to be realistic this is a movie that deserve more time, anyway the movie it's great. This movie shows an increible film fotography and the orchestral arrangements for the music are great, the story is well narrated by Kevin Spacey, everything in the movie is great. If you are looking for a good Imax story, this is it.
 Great fun for a five year old explorer and his dad November 23, 2004
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
A beautiful, romantic, but too short treatment of Shackleton's expedition. My son and I saw this after seeing the Discovery documentary "The Endurance" and after watching the Kevin Branagh film--and this order worked. From the Discovery program you get the facts, the movie (with all its flaws) was more than adequate, and then the IMAX is a gorgeous treatment that combines the period photography of expedition shutterbug Frank Hurley, stunning modern shots of the landscape, and just a judicious bit of historical re-enactment (thankfully not too much). Well done! But we're done with Shackleton for a while.
What a guy! September 13, 2004
I did not have the privilege of seeing this in an IMAX theatre; rather, I borrowed the DVD from the library. In its 41 minutes, I was riveted and in complete awe. The photography of that very mysterious Antarctica was exquisite: the 2000/01 photography as well as the original. I cheered the great Shackleton and his crew, but was concerned about their faithful dogs (I'm not a PETA freak, I just like good dogs). I know there are other, longer and more detailed versions of Shackleton's trip. I'm happy to have seen this version. It was concise, and told me enough to know that Shackleton is a great man, an adventurer to be revered and admired in perpetuity. A bleak adventure, children should see this as a lesson in perseverence and fortitude. I'm humbled.
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