Shackleton's Captain (2012 TV Movie)
1/10
Pathetic Rewrite of History
23 May 2020
Where to start? The quasi movie-documentary is so far off in its OPINION of Shackleton it is laughable.

Who raised the funds to finance the effort? -Shackleton

By the way there is incredible pressure to deliver on your expedition when you are funded by "free money".

Who begged the King of England to allow his men to serve in WWI rather than complete the expedition? - Shackleton

By the way there is life and death pressure to deliver on your expedition when your country men are dying by the tens of thousands in war.

The movie completely lacks context, has no basis in fact on Shackleton's character and turns the opinion of fat, haggard arm chair experts of our current day into fact.

If you want to understand why the story of the Endurance and Shackleton have been referred to by millions as THE EXAMPLE of how failure can be success, watch the PBS series of the the topic instead. If you want a "modern snowflake" revision of history, watch this garbage.
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