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    Poster of the movie Passage [2008]
    2008     Documentary    
    1h 30min
    ONF   April 22, 2026

    The story of a British explorer Sir John Franklin and his crew of 128 men, who perished in the Arctic ice during an ill-fated attempt to discover the Northwest Passage, and John Rae, the Scottish doctor who in 1851, discovered their dismal fate. Rae's dark report, which described the crew's madness and cannibalism, did not sit well with Sir John's widow, Lady Franklin, nor with many others in British society, including Charles Dickens. They waged a bitter public campaign to discredit Rae's version of events and mark an entire nation of northern Inuit with the label of murderous cannibals. A stunning face-to-face meeting between the great-great grandson of Charles Dickens and Tagak Curley, an honoured Inuit statesman who challenges the fraudulent history, vaults the story from the past into the present and we are witness to history in the making.

    Directed byJohn Walker
    Written byAndrew Rai Berzins, Ken McGoogan, John Walker
    CountryCanada

    Featuring

    David Acton
    Geraldine Alexander
    Andrew Alston
    Nigel Bennett
    Andrew Rai Berzins
    Alistair Findlay
    Colin George
    Patrick Godfrey
    Guy Oliver-Watts
    Rick Roberts
    Simon Slater
    John Walker
    James Wallace

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    Photo from the movie Passage [2008]
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