"Antarctica's Forgotten Hero was made by Crossing the Line Films,
a production company with the welcome habit of filming the most
inhospitable spots on earth with such beauty you almost want to abandon the
couch and go explore them."

Shane Hegarty, The Irish Times

This award winning film tells the extraordinary story of Irishman Tom Crean, who became one of the most indestructible heroes in the history of Antarctic exploration, taking part in three of the four greatest Antarctic expeditions - sharing adventures with both Scott and Shackleton, the great rivals of the time, and outliving them both.

At the age of fifteen Tom Crean ran away from his home in Annascaul, Co. Kerry, to join the Royal Navy. He was an extraordinary man who loomed in the background of some of the most epic Antarctic adventures, laughing, hauling sledges, pipe in mouth, grinning hugely - the good humoured, invincible Tom Crean...

Tom's solo journey to rescue a comrade, Teddy Evans, has been described by Antarctic historians as "the finest feat of individual heroism from the entire age of exploration".
Using a wealth of photographic and film archive and interviews with leading polar historians, including Ranulph Fiennes and Reinhold Messner, Crean's biographer, Michael Smith and relatives of Tom Crean and Ernest Shackleton, this documentary will, for the first time, tell the story of his astonishing life of adventure, heroism and survival against the odds.

Filmed by Ross Bartley
Directed by John Murray and Donncha O'Briain
Produced by John Murray

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