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Run Time: 3h 20m.

IMDb: 7.8 / 10.

Release year: 2000.

Story: In two parallel stories, the clockmaker John Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea in the 18th Century and the horologist Rupert Gould becomes obsessed with restoring it in the 20th Century.

In the eighteenth century, the only way to navigate accurately at sea was to follow a coastline all the way, which would not get you from Europe to the West Indies or the Americas. Observing the sun or stars would give you the latitude, but not the longitude unless done in conjunction with a clock that would keep time accurately at sea, and no such clock existed. After one too many maritime disasters due to navigational errors, the British Parliament set up a substantial prize for a way to find the longitude at sea. This movies main story is that of craftsman John Harrison (Sir Michael Gambon). He built a clock that would do the job, what we would now call a marine chronometer. But the Board of Longitude was biased against this approach and claiming the prize was no simple matter. Told in parallel is the twentieth century story of Rupert Gould (Jeremy Irons), for whom the restoration of Harrisons clocks to working order became first a hobby, then an obsession that threatened to wreck his life.

In the early years of the eighteenth century, a British fleet foundered on the rocks off of the Scilly Isles due to a navigational error. The problem was an incorrect estimation of longitude, something that had yet to be perfected. As a result, Parliament announced they would award a sum of twenty thousand pounds sterling to anyone who could develop an accurate method of determining longitude. John Harrison (Sir Michael Gambon), a carpenter by trade and amateur clockmaker, decides to try and solve the issue by building an accurate maritime clock. Over many years, Harrison perfected timepieces that would accurately give time at a known location, such as Greenwich, which could then be compared against local time (by measuring the position of the sun in the sky). The time difference could then be converted to degrees of longitude which, combined with the already existing method of calculating latitude, would give the ships exact location. Harrisons timepieces were a marvel of the age, but it took several experiments and a great many years before his accomplishment was recognized and the cash prize awarded. Interspersed with Harrisons story is that of Rupert Gould (Jeremy Irons), who, just after World War I, located some of Harrisons original timepieces and tried to restore them to working order.

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Jeremy Irons
Rupert Gould

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