The Greely expedition (DVD) [videorecording] / an Apograph Productions Inc. film for American Experience ; written, produced, and directed by Rob Rapley.
Title from container. Narrator: Michael Murphy. Originally broadcast as an episode of "American experience" on PBS.
Summary:
In 1881, 25 men led by Lieutenant Adolphus Greely sailed from the harbor of St. John's, Newfoundland. Their destination was Lady Franklin Bay in the high Arctic, where they planned to collect a wealth of scientific data from a vast area of the world's surface that had been described by a British admiral as a 'sheer blank.' Three years later, only six survivors returned, with a daunting story of shipwreck, starvation, mutiny, and cannibalism.
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