American Experience
The Greely Expedition (23x7)
Ausstrahlung: Jan 31, 2011
In 1881, 25 men led by Adolphus Greely set sail from Newfoundland to 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 as a "sheer blank." Three years later, only six survivors returned, with a daunting story of shipwreck, starvation, mutiny and cannibalism. The film reveals how poor planning, personality clashes, questionable decisions and pure bad luck conspired to turn a noble scientific mission into a human tragedy.
- Premiere: Okt 1988
- Episoden: 483
- Anhänger: 75
- Laufend
- PBS
- Dienstag um 21