Passage (Trailer)

Filmmaker John Walker uses an innovative approach to tell the story of John Rae, the Scottish doctor who revealed, in 1851, what happened to British explorer Sir John Franklin and his crew of 128 men: that they perished in the Arctic after a failed attempt to discover the Northwest Passage and had descended into madness and cannibalism. Rae was reviled in Victorian society, and Lady Franklin and Charles Dickens did their best to discredit his version of history. As we move closer to the film's climax, we witness a stunning face-to-face meeting between Charles Dickens's great-great grandson and Tagak Curley, an Inuit statesman who challenges the fraudulent history. In one moment, Walker vaults the story from the past into the present and we are witness to history in the making.