ENGL 460: The Ends of Exploration

Course Films


 Forbidden Quest (1993)

Search for the Northwest Passage (2004); this version uses the US title "Arctic Passage")

The Terror, Season One, Episode One (2018)

The First Men in the Moon (1964)

Space is the Place (1972)

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  • A Brief History of Arctic Exploration
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  • Potter, "Exploration and Sacrifice"
  • The Man Who Ate His Boots
  • The Arctic and Horror
  • Into the Wild Slideshow
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  • Tom Lehrer, "Werner von Braun"
  • Delpeut, "Forbidden Quest" (film)
  • Hall's crew's vote of confidence
  • Franklin and Forensics
  • NEW! Indigenous perspectives on Franklin
  • "The Terror" showreel 1
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  • Lawrence Millman, Introduction to "A Woman in the Polar Night:
  • The Ritter hunting camp as it looks today
  • How H.G. Wells Predicted the 20th Century
  • NASA's "capsule" history of Space Travel
  • Star Trek Enterprise opening montage
  • Pale Blue Dot
  • First episode of "Cosmos"

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Russell Potter is Professor of English at Rhode Island College. He speciality is the history of polar exploration (Arctic Spectacles, 2007), with a focus on the the lost 1845 Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin; his 2016 book, Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search,details the long search for evidence of the expedition. In 2022, along with Peter Carney, Regina Koellner, and Mary Williamson, he has edited a volume containing all the known letters to and from Franklin's men: May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition; the publisher is McGill-Queen's University Press.
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