Passage

Passage (2008)


  • Genre: History, Documentary, Drama
  • Release Date: 2008-10-03
  • Runtime: 1h 30min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: PTV Productions
  • Production Country: Canada
  • Director: John Walker

Summary

With a unique blend of dramatic action and behind-the-scenes documentary footage, filmmaker John Walker shares the multi-layered story of British explorer Sir John Franklin and his crew of 128 men, who perished in the Arctic ice during an ill-fated attempt to discover the Northwest Passage, and John Rae, the Scottish doctor who in 1851, discovered their dismal fate. Rae's dark report, which described the crew’s madness and cannibalism, did not sit well with Sir John's widow, Lady Franklin, nor with many others in British society, including Charles Dickens. They waged a bitter public campaign to discredit Rae's version of events and mark an entire nation of northern Inuit with the label of murderous cannibals. A stunning face-to-face meeting between the great-great grandson of Charles Dickens and Tagak Curley, an honoured Inuit statesman who challenges the fraudulent history, vaults the story from the past into the present and we are witness to history in the making.

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  • Rick Roberts

    as John Rae
  • Geraldine Alexander

    as Lady Jane Franklin
  • David Acton

    as Sir James Clark Ross
  • Andrew Alston

    as Sir William Edward Perry
  • Nigel Bennett

    as Sir James Graham
  • Alistair Findlay

    as Sir John Richardson
  • Colin George

    as Sir Francis Beaufort
  • Patrick Godfrey

    as Sir John Barrow
  • Simon Slater

    as Sir George Back
  • Guy Oliver-Watts

    as Charles Dickens
Writing John Walker Writer
Writing Andrew Rai Berzins Writer
Directing John Walker Director

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