Endurance Trailer Surfaced by National Geographic
National Geographic has revealed the official trailer for Endurance, which was directed by Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, and Natalie Hewit. The documentary will begin streaming on Disney+ and Hulu on November 2, 2024.
In a legendary feat of leadership and perseverance, polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton kept alive his crew of 27 men for over a year despite the loss of their ship in frigid pack ice. Over a century later, a team of modern-day explorers sets out to find the sunken ship.
From National Geographic Documentary Films, Endurance tells the inspiring stories of these two landmark expeditions, bound by their shared grit and determination.
In 1914, Anglo-Irish Merchant Navy officer and veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton commanded an expedition to sail to Antarctica. His mission was to be the first to traverse the vast continent from one coast to another: a distance of 1,800 miles across the most difficult terrain on the planet.
Endurance, however, would never reach her destination, getting trapped in the pack ice and ultimately sinking, leaving Shackleton and his men alone, on the ice of the Weddell Sea. Unbelievably and against all the odds, Shackleton and all 27 of his crew survived the ordeal.
Famous as one of history’s greatest “successful failures,” the Endurance tale is an example of inspirational leadership in the face of great adversity. It is the greatest survival story of all time.
In early 2022, the Endurance22 expedition team, onboard the South African icebreaker S.A. Agulhas II, carrying cutting-edge undersea search technology, set out to find the Endurance at the bottom of the Weddell Sea.
Endurance tells both stories, as the voices of Shackleton and his crew “read” from their expedition diaries, letters and other writings in another extraordinarily immersive film from Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Emmy Award-winning filmmakers of Free Solo, Meru, The Rescue, and Nyad along with BAFTA-nominated director Natalie Hewit (Antarctica: Ice Station Rescue, Forensics: The Real CSI, Surviving Covid, The Drug Trial: Emergency at the Hospital).
