Synopsis

Following the March 9, 2022 news announcement of the history-making discovery of Shackleton's ship, Endurance, this documentary serves as a definitive look at Sir Ernest Shackleton's historic and ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition resulting in the loss of his highly revered ship, as well as maritime archaeologists' mission to find this "holy grail" of shipwrecks. This 90-minute special will serve as a continuation of the network's commitment to telling the complete Shackleton story following the previously aired "Endurance: The Hunt for Shackleton's Ice Ship" which chronicled the first, ground-breaking expedition to locate the lost ship by the same leadership team on the same vessel in 2019. The two-hour documentary, which originally aired on November 28, 2020 as part of the series "History's Greatest Mysteries," was the result of two years of planning and over $250 million spent in technology utilizing the same vessel, the S.A. Agulhas II. Many of the same crew were aboard when their news made international headlines when they discovered the ship on the bottom of the Weddell Sea.