Rating:
7/10 by 5 users
Longitude (2000)
The fascinating story of John Harrison who, in the 18th century, believed he could make a clock that would work on board a ship—and so solve the problem of finding longitude at sea.
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Release Date:
Sun, Jan 02, 2000
Country: GB
Language: En
Runtime: 125
Country: GB
Language: En
Runtime: 125
Ian Hart
William Harrison
Michael Gambon
John Harrison
Jonathan Coy
Adm. Sir Clowdisley Shovell
Jeremy Irons
Rupert Gould
Peter Cartwright
Army Doctor
Gemma Jones
Elizabeth Harrison
Christopher Hodsol
Capt. Ainsley
Anna Chancellor
Muriel Gould
Christopher Hodsol
Captain Ainsley
Stephen Fry
Sir Kenhelm Digby
Emma Kay
Laura Gurney
Samuel West
Nevil Maskelyne
Ian McNeice
Dr. Bliss
Bill Nighy
Lord Sandwich
Brian Cox
Lord Morton
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Dodo Gould
Peter-Hugo Daly
John Jefferies
Gary Waldhorn
Commodore Forrest
Tim McInnerny
Christopher Irwin
Hugh Simon
Doctor
Alfred Burke
Rear Admiral
Michael Cochrane
Waddington
Nigel Davenport
Sir Charles Pelham
Roger Lloyd Pack
Capt. Man (uncredited)
Tobias Menzies
Halley's Secretary (uncredited)
Season 1:
When the British Parliament creates an award of £20,000 to whoever can come up with a solution for determining longitude at sea, a carpenter-turned-clockmaker, John Harrison, begins his experiments to build an accurate timepiece unaffected by sea travel. His main obstacles are lack of money, a judgment Board convinced that the answer lies in astronomy and not clocks, and the mechanics of the clock itself.
The ever-reliable Ian Hart appears in Part 2 as Harrison's now-adult son and apprentice, and Longitude approaches its dramatic climax with the exhilarating tension of a first-rate thriller. Rallying after sickness to prove the integrity of their marvelous seafaring chronometers, the Harrisons still had to fight for official recognition, and Gould's restoration of the Harrison clockworks provides a fitting coda to this exceptional story about the thrill of discovery and the tenacity of remarkable men.
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