Longitude Gift 2pk (2000)
Director:
Charles Sturridge
Starring: Ian Hart Michael Gambon Jeremy Irons
| In the 18th century a rural clock maker, john harrison, begins an obsessive, forty-year effot to devise a system of determining longitude at sea with an ingenious marine timepiece. Meanwhile 200 years in the future, naval officer rupert gould begins his own quest to refurbish the chronometers. |
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Editor's Note
An 18th century clock maker named Jon Harrison (Gambon) begins what is to become a forty-year task to invent a system for determining longitude at sea with a nautical timepiece. Meanwhile, 200 years in the future, naval officer Rupert Gould (Irons) discovers Harrison's neglected chronometers and sets out to restore them. A high seas saga of passion, determination, and discovery presented by A&E and based on the novel by Dava Sobel.
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Cast & Crew
| Samuel West | |
| Ian Hart | |
| Peter Vaughan | |
| Michael Gambon | |
| Alec McCowen | |
| Jeremy Irons | |
| Charles Sturridge - Screenwriter | |
| Selwyn Roberts - Producer | |
| Peter Hannan - Director of Photography | |
| Charles Sturridge - Director |

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