Longitude (Complete Series)

Longitude (Complete Series) (DVD) (*)

$20.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
198 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2000 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Charles Sturridge

Written By:
Dava Sobel
Charles Sturridge

Actors:
Jeremy Irons ..... Rupert Gould
Anna Chancellor ..... Muriel Gould
Emma Kay ..... Laura Gurney
Michael Gambon ..... John Harrison
Gemma Jones ..... Elizabeth Harrison
Barbara Leigh-Hunt ..... Dodo Gould
Peter-Hugo Daly ..... John Jefferies
Alec McCowen ..... Sir Frank Dyson
Jonathan Coy ..... Admiral Clowdisley
Christopher Hodsol ..... Captain Ainsley
Samuel West ..... Nevil Maskelyne
Clare Lawrence Moody ..... Staff Nurse
Ian McNeice ..... Dr. Bliss
Clare McCarron ..... Nurse
Peter Cartwright ..... Army Doctor
Ian Hart ..... William Harrison
John Nettleton ..... Minister for the Navy
Bill Nighy ..... Lord Sandwich
Brian Cox ..... Lord Morton
Nigel Davenport ..... Sir Charles Pelham
Liam Jennings ..... Young William
John Leeson ..... BBC Producer
Joe Williams ..... Cecil Gould
Geoffrey Hutchings ..... Estate Manager
Nick Reding ..... Captain Campbell
John Wood ..... Edmund Halley
Peter Penry-Jones ..... Surgeon
Charles Edwards ..... Lt. Seward
David Wood ..... Ditton
Clive Francis ..... Captain Digges
Mark Tandy ..... Whiston
Stephen Fry ..... Sir Kenelm Digby
Steven Alvey ..... Learmouth
Tobias Menzies ..... Halley's Secretary
Ben Jones ..... Lt. Williams
Gary Waldhorn ..... Commodore Forrest
Robert Demeger ..... Observatory Porter
Colin McCormack ..... Inn Landlord
Sophie Millett ..... Dyson's Secretary
Peter Vaughan ..... George Graham
Daragh O'Malley ..... Captain Bourke
Sarah Badel ..... Society Lady
Phil Dix ..... Lt. Bandelwine
Frederick Warder ..... Bosun
Steve Morphew ..... Marine
Stephen Simms ..... James Harrison
Frank Finlay ..... Admiral Wagner
Sasha Hails ..... BBC Researcher
Tim McInnerny ..... Christopher Irwin
Cliff Parisi ..... Lt. Draper

Synopsis:

When British Parliament creates an award of twenty thousand pounds sterling to whomever can come up with a solution for determining longitude at sea, a carpenter-turned-clockmaker, John Harrison (Sir Michael Gambon), 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. Rupert Gould (Jeremy Irons), a retired Naval officer who suffered a nervous breakdown in World War I, has been researching Harrison's history and makes efforts to locate and restore Harrison's clocks. Harrison's and Gould's struggles are linked by the clocks which the two men will, across two hundred years, make tick accurately enough to measure longitude.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 24 March, 2026.