Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure Large Format

Customer Reviews

Classroom Resource

2008-02-08
This item, along with "The Endurance", are fantastic multi-media resources for a unit on Shackleton's adventure. These DVDs pair wonderfully with the book we cover with our seventh graders: "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World". Both are highly recommended for teachers as well as lovers of documentaries. The original photographs and film from expedition photographer Frank Hurley are amazing and really neat for the kids.

Amazing story

2007-01-20
Shackleton was a great leader in impossible circumstances and this story high lights some of those leadership skills. Saw it first on Imax and was very impressed. That is what prompted the purchase.

Informational and Inspirational

2006-02-21
This film is one for the ages. A good synopsis of the Shackleton story that focuses on the leadership and togetherness that took place on this adventure. I am a corporate leadership trainer who has used this film to teach hundreds of people about true leadership and teamwork. This film is a must see for anyone in a leadership role or hoping to one day attain one. It is also a very good story for families, adventurists, historians, and more. Definitely worth the time and money.

great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2005-12-19
I know it's weird that a kid is reiwing this but i am. this was a good film i saw it in imax and my dad liked it so much he bought it on dvd. so this movie is good for aldults and kids.
it was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 5 stars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shackleton's Anarctic Adventure

2005-08-02
An inspirational story of endurance and true leadership. After watching it, I used it as a team building seminar for my staff. Kevin Spacey's narration was excellent.

Good...but not the best

2005-04-05
One of the greatest survival stories of all time comes to life in this extraordinary true story of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1916 British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, a testament to heroism and human endurance. All 28 men survived nearly two years in the barren, frigid Antarctic when their ship was caught in pack ice and eventually crushed. Featuring stunning Antarctic images and recreations plus original still photography and 35mm motion picture footage by Rank Hurley, the official photographer for the expedition, this is a voyage you'll want to relive again and again.

Sets very high standards of Human Courage and Endurance

2005-03-26
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

2005-01-21
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

2004-11-23
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!

2004-09-13
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.