In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackletons Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition headed for the South Pole and disaster. SHACKLETONS CAPTAIN reveals the truth behind the spectacular rescue and shows how one mans extra-ordinary skills and unsung heroism made it possible: Frank Worsley, Captain of the expedition ship, Endurance. Worsley was faced with seemingly insurmountable odds when the Endurance became trapped in the pack ice off the coast of Antarctica. The ship was slowly crushed, forcing Worsley and his crew to abandon ship. They spent the next ten months living on the ice floe before rowing three life boats to a desolate rock called Elephant Island. The men were facing slow starvation in the freezing cold and with no rescue in sight Worsley, Shackleton and four crew were forced to risk everything by sailing one of the tiny life boats eight hundred miles across the Southern Ocean to the small island of South Georgia where they hoped to find help at a Norwegian whaling station. Twenty eight lives were in the balance as master sailor Frank Worsley navigated in the worst conditions imaginable; rogue waves, ice bergs and a hurricane in a journey modern sailors consider to be one of the greatest sailing voyages of all time. Worsley, Shackleton and four crew survived storms, freezing cold and the mountainous seas before finally reaching the barren coastline of South Georgia. Hurricane winds forced them to land at a beach on the opposite side of the island to where the whaling station lay and Worsley had to call on his extraordinary skills a second time; he had no map of the island with which to navigate their route across the mountainous interior. Without any alpine equipment, totally inadequate clothing and almost no food or water Worsley, Shackleton and Tom Crean set off to cross the mountains and glaciers to the whaling station and help where they organized a rescue party. After nearly two years on the ice not a single man had perished. The expedition was a disaster, the rescue story one of the greatest in history. An important discovery sheds new light on events surrounding the expedition. While researching for the biography of Frank Worsley; Shackletons Captain, the author, John Thomson, discovered personal letters, photos, lecture notes and a diary in the house where Worsley died. This material informed an insider-perspective on events surrounding the expedition and the critical role played by Worsley., The book Shackletons Captain; recounts the life of an extraordinary man and now the film brings Worsleys story to life. Based on the book 'Shackleton's Captain' by John Thomson.