Projects - Sloan Science & Film

The Greely Expedition

Using scientific accounts, diaries, photographs and letters, this documentary reveals how poor planning, personality clashes, questionable decisions, and bad luck conspired to turn a scientific mission into a human tragedy.

[text adapted from PBS.org]

CREDITS

Written and Directed by Rob Rapley
Produced by Rapley and Molly Jacobs
Edited by Bruce Shaw
Produced by WGBH for The American Experience

SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS

Astronomy

AWARDS

2011, Television: WGBH Production Award

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Short Films
Feature Films

A science focused teaching framework for short and feature films, all of which have received awards from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for their depictions of scientific themes or characters.