Longitude
(DVD) 

Originally produced for television in 1999.

Based on the book by Dava Sobel.

Includes behind-the-scenes featurette, interactive menus, and scene selection.

Director of photography, Peter Hannan ; editor, Peter Coulson ; music, Geoffrey Burgon.

Jeremy Irons, Michael Gambon, Ian Hart.

"In the 18th century, to stop the loss of cargo ships at sea, Britain's Parliament offers an unprecedented cash award to anyone who can devise a way to determine longitude at sea. Convinced her can solve the problem that has defeated England's best minds, rural clock maker John Harrison begins an obsessive, 40-year struggle to claim the Longitude prize with his ingenious marine clock. Two hundred years in the future, naval officer Rupert Gould stumbles across Harrison's forgottten chronometers. A veteran of the Great War, Gould sets out to bring some measure of order to his own shell-shocked life by devoting himself to restoring Harrison's long-neglected mechanical masterpieces."-container.

DVD, full screen presentation; Dolby digital stereo.

Closed-captioned.

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