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A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton 's ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in 1914-1916, featuring new footage of the actual locations and interviews with surviving relatives of key expedition members, plus archived audio interviews with expedition members, and a generous helping of the footage and still photos shot on the expedition. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264578/

In which I go to investigate the start of a new Acoustic night at the leftbank, and discover it's filled with Dartingtonites. I think the world is trying to tell me something.

David Attenborough journeys to both polar regions to investigate what rising temperatures will mean for the people and wildlife that live there and for the rest of the planet. David starts out at the North Pole, standing on sea ice several metres thick, but which scientists predict could be open ocean within the next few decades. The Arctic has been warming at twice the global average, so David heads out with a Norwegian team to see what this means for polar bears. He comes face-to-face with a tranquilised female, and discovers that mothers and cubs are going hungry as the sea ice on which they hunt disappears. In Canada, Inuit hunters have seen with their own eyes what scientists have seen from space; the Arctic Ocean has lost 30% of its summer ice cover over the last 30 years. For some, the melting sea ice will allow access to trillions of dollars worth of oil, gas and minerals. For the rest of us, it means the planet will get warmer, as sea ice is important to reflect back the sun's energy. Next David travels to see what is happening to the ice on land: in Greenland, we follow intrepid ice scientists as they study giant waterfalls of meltwater, which are accelerating iceberg calving events, and ultimately leading to a rise in global sea level. Temperatures have also risen in the Antarctic - David returns to glaciers photographed by the Shackleton expedition and reveals a dramatic retreat over the past century. It is not just the ice that is changing - ice-loving adelie penguins are disappearing, and more temperate gentoo penguins are moving in. Finally, we see the first ever images of the largest recent natural event on our planet - the break up of the Wilkins Ice Shelf, an ice sheet the size of Jamaica, which shattered into hundreds of icebergs in 2009.

Ulli Boegershausen and Sungha Jung playing Approaching Dark, comp. by Phil Shackleton at Ulli's house on April, 1st. 2009

Im Jahr 1907 suchte Sir Ernest Shackleton Freiwillige für eine Antarktis-Expedition, um den Südpol zu erobern.Immerhin 27 Mann konnte Shackleton 1914 so motivieren, mit ihm in See zu stechen. Endurance (Durchhaltevermögen) nannte er sein Polarschiff, der Name hätte nicht besser gewählt sein können. Die Reise sollte als Beispiel menschlicher Ausdauer und eines unbändigen Überlebenswillens in die Geschichte eingehen. 635 Tage im Eis - Schon bald geriet die Endurance in die Fänge des Packeises, 2.000 Kilometer vor dem Ziel. Mühsam manövriert die Crew durch Eisschollen und Fahrrinnen. Dann der 19. Januar 1915: Die Eisfalle schnappt zu, die Endurance ist eingefroren - mitten im antarktischen Sommer. Die Besatzung zieht in den wärmenden Bauch des Schiffes. Im Mai geht für drei Monate die Sonne unter, Temperaturen bis minus 26 Grad. Das anbrechende Frühjahr bringt das Eis in Bewegung, die Endurance droht unter dem Druck der Eisschollen zu zerbersten. Ein unvergleichlicher Überlebenskampf beginnt.

The premier British heavy bomber of the war, the Lancaster was a redesign of the failed twin engine Manchester design. With a few airframe modifications and the change to four Rolls-Royce "Merlin" engines, the Lancaster became a truly great aircraft. In addition to the many night area bombing missions conducted by the RAF, Lancaster's were used for many special missions, including the "Dam Busters" raid (the first precision bombing attack of the war), the bombing of the battleship Tirpitz, and the delivery of the 20,000 lb "Grand Slam" bombs. After the war the airframe was again redesigned to accept four contra-rotating turboprop engines, and, as the "Shackleton", served until well into the 1960's.

Elephant Island ,Was made famous by shackleton's 1914-1917 Endurance Expedition where his men waited 137 days for his return from South Georgia ,I'm your host michael Murphy and this is Destination Unknown