54 Hours

Directed by Bruce Alcock, Paton Francis · Starring Brian Hennessey, Teri Snelgrove · 2014

Survivor testimony, archival material and inventive animation recount the 1914 disaster when 132 seal hunters were stranded on the ice off Newfoundland during a brutal snowstorm.

A haunting animated reconstruction of a real-life polar tragedy, told in survivors' own words.

This short animation is a remarkably vivid account of the 1914 tragedy in which 132 men were stranded on the ice during a severe snowstorm off the coast of Newfoundland. 78 men froze to death on the pack ice. In the spri

Plays in YouTube's player · Watch on YouTube