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The Greely Expedition #S23E07

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The Greely Expedition

American Experience  ·  Season 23, Episode 7

In 1881, 25 men led by Adolphus Greely set sail from Newfoundland to Lady Franklin Bay in the high Arctic, where they planned to collect a wealth of scientific data from a vast area of the world’s surface that had been described as a "sheer blank." Three years later, only six survivors returned, with a daunting story of shipwreck, starvation, mutiny and cannibalism. The film reveals how poor planning, personality clashes, questionable decisions and pure bad luck conspired to turn a noble scientific mission into a human tragedy.


Episode 7 of Season 23 from American Experience — available to stream in HD on any device.

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04 Oct, 1988
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