Survival! The Shackleton Story

To license this clip go to Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew took bitter defeat and turned it into heroic this century, members of the imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition watched as their ship, the Endurance was crushed by the frozen were left with no radio and no hope of more than a year, they drifted on packed ice, surviving on seal, penguin, and eventually dog meat, while battling freezing temperatures and mind-numbing Shackleton, along with all 28 members of the expedition, emerged at Stromness whaling station in May, 1916, almost two years after their departure, the world was shocked.