Longitude Miniseries Part 1 2000
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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.
- Released: 2000-01-02
- Runtime: 125 minutes
- Genre: Drama
- Stars: Ian Hart, Michael Gambon, Jonathan Coy, Jeremy Irons, Peter Cartwright
- Director: Pippa Cross, Delia Fine, Antony Root, Geoffrey Burgon, Peter Hannan
