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![The Search for the Northwest Passage (2005)](/media/img/movie/poster/m/1d/f695cef0262b95021fc48cb3.jpg)
A look at the search for the fabled Northwest passage, the legendary path through the ice across the Canadian Arctic, and the attempts made by wealthy British explorer Sir John Franklin and penniless Norwegian Roald Amundsen.
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