Top billed cast

1. 

   Michael Gambon

   John Harrison

2. 

   Jeremy Irons

   Rupert Gould

3. 

   Ian Hart

   William Harrison (Adult)

4. 

   Andrew Scott

   John Campbell

5. 

   Bill Nighy

   Lord Sandwich

6. 

   Gemma Jones

   Elizabeth Harrison

7. 

   John Wood

   Sir Edmund Halley

8. 

   Anna Chancellor

   Muriel Gould

9. 

   Brian Cox

   Lord Morton

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Reviews

A review by Peter McGinn

Written by Peter McGinn on 2020-04-02

I had known about this 3-hour long, two part made-for-tv movie for a long time, but it took me a while to get around to watching it. It is very well done, so that even though the dual plots move slowly and with a lot of detail, it kept my interest throughout. It is hard to believe what John Harrison went through all those years working on his clock to be used by sailors to help them know where they are even on the open sea. If Harrison had worked for decades in the hard sciences during a later era, I dare say he would have received a Nobel prize, for it seemed the monetary prize he was seeking...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
• inventor
• jamaica
• time
• 18th century
• sailing ship
• greenwich london
• british sailor
• watchmaker
• longitude
• chronometer
• transit of venus
• royal society