1 Season
2 Episode
Longitude - Season 1 Episode 1 Part 1
THE TIME-SPANNING HIGH SEAS EPIC
When the British Parliament creates an award of £20,000 to whoever can come up with a solution for determining longitude at sea, a carpenter-turned-clockmaker, John Harrison, begins his experiments to build an accurate timepiece unaffected by sea travel. His main obstacles are lack of money, a judgment Board convinced that the answer lies in astronomy and not clocks, and the mechanics of the clock itself.
- Year : 2000
- Country : United Kingdom, United States of America
- Genre : Drama
- Studio : Channel 4
- Keyword : england, inventor, miniseries, 18th century, historical drama
- Director :
- Cast : Ian Hart, Michael Gambon, Jonathan Coy, Jeremy Irons, Peter Cartwright, Gemma Jones
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