LONGITUDE

Details

• Release Year: 2000
• Genre: Adventure, Drama, Special Interest
• Plot: Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons ('Reversal of Fortune', 'The French Lieutenant s Woman') stars in this sweeping adaptation of Dava Sobel's best-selling book which tells a time spanning parallel story of high seas adventure and political intrigue in the race to discover the life-or-death secret of LONGITUDE.; ; Determined to stop shipping losses on the oceans of the 18th century, Britain's Parliament offers an unprecedented cash award to anyone who can devise a way to determine longitude at sea. Convinced he can solve the problem that has defeated England's best minds, rural clock maker John Harrison (Michael Gambon) 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 (Jeremy Irons) stumbles across Harrison's forgotten 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.; ; Interwoven in an epic tale spaning two centuries, LONGITUDE is a lavishly produced voyage into the farthest reaches of human passion, perseverance, and discovery.
• Cast: Jonathan Coy, Christopher Hodsol, Jeremy Irons, Peter Cartwright, Gemma Jones, John Nettleton, Michael Gambon, Nigel Davenport, Liam Jennings, Anna Chancellor, Frank Finlay, Geoffrey Hutchings, Andrew Scott, John Standing, John Wood, David Wood, Mark Tandy, Stephen Fry, Samuel West, Robert Demeger, Ian McNeice, Sophie Millett, Bill Nighy, Brian Cox, Peter Vaughan, Sarah Badel, Clive Francis, Alec McCowen, Tim McInnerny, Stephen Simms, Lucy Akhurst, Cliff Parisi, Rupert Baker, Charles Gray, Trevor Cooper, William Scott-Masson, William Thomas, Ian Burfield, John Quentin, Alfred Burke, Michael Cochrane, Ian Hart, John Leeson, Nick Reding, Peter Penry-Jones, Charles Edwards, Gary Waldhorn, Frederick Warder, Sasha Hails, John Normington, Pip Torrens, Frederick Treves, Rebecca Clay, Richard Janes, Faith Kent, Nicholas Rowe, Heike Makatsch, John Quayle, James Bradshaw, T.P. McKenna, Kelvin Cook, Peter-Hugo Daly, Eliza Darby, Duane Fierro, Daniela Lavender, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Roger Lloyd Pack, Christopher Longman, Gavin Molloy, Clare Lawrence Moody, Daragh O'Malley, Mathew Whyman, Rebekah Woodhouse, Steven Alvey, David Cheesman, Joel French, Kevin Hudson, Matt Humphrey, Lara Imogen, Ben Jones, Emma Kay, Rose Keegan, Kristen Lippincott, Clare McCarron, Colin McCormack, Tobias Menzies, Steve Morphew, Hugh Simon, Joe Williams, Charles Sturridge, Dava Sobel
• Director: Charles Sturridge
• Runtime: 3:20
• Company: A&E
• Media Format: Series