Name: Longitude
Genre: Drama
Cast: Michael Gambon, Jeremy Irons, Gemma Jones, Anna Chancellor, Emma Kay

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Michael Gambon

Jeremy Irons

Gemma Jones

Anna Chancellor

Emma Kay

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Peter-Hugo Daly

Alec McCowen

Kevin Hudson

T. P. McKenna

Charles Sturridge

The fascinating story of John Harrison who, in the 18th century, believed he could make a clock that would work on board a ship—and so solve the problem of finding longitude at sea.

Longitude

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.

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Rallying after sickness to prove the integrity of their marvelous seafaring chronometers, the Harrisons still had to fight for official recognition, and Gould's restoration of the Harrison clockworks provides a fitting coda to this exceptional story about the thrill of discovery and the tenacity of remarkable men.

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