Shackleton - The Greatest Survival Story of All Time (3-Disc Collector's Edition) [DVD]Amazon. com Shackleton is not a biopic of the great Anglo Irish explorer but a dramatization of the failed trans Antarctic expedition of 1914 1916. As written and directed by Charles Sturridge (Longitude), the production, filmed on real ice floes in Greenland, stays remarkably close to the facts, capturing the look of the surviving expedition photos by Frank Hurley (collected in the book South with Endurance) with great fidelity. Kenneth Branagh makes