American Experience - Season 23 - Eps 7: The Greely Expedition

Name: Eps 7: The Greely Expedition
Released: 2011-01-31
Rating: 3.7

2011-01-31 • 55 min • ⭐ 7.4/10

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.