Longitude [videorecording (DVD)] / a Granada Film production for Channel Four in association with A & E Television Networks ; producer, Selwyn Roberts ; written and directed by Charles Sturridge.
Jeremy Irons, Michael Gambon. Originally produced for television in 1999. Based on the book by Dava Sobel. Includes behind-the-scenes featurette, interactive menus, and scene selection.
Summary:
Interweaves two stories: John Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer; and naval officer Rupert Gould who, two hundred years later, stumbles across Harrison's forgotten chronometers and devotes himself to restoring Harrison's long-neglected mechanical masterpieces.
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