National Geographic's new documentary on Disney+, Endurance, displays the search for the remains of the famed explorer, Ernest Shackleton's lost ship and offers insight into his involvement in two previous expeditions across Antarctica. The documentary follows the expedition of archaeologist, Mensun Bound, as he and his crew search for the remains of Shackleton's vessel Endurance, which sank to the bottom of the Weddell Sea in 1915. Endurance follows the crew's determination to locate the ship while also depicting the trials that Shackleton and his Endurance crew were forced to endure in the Antarctic in order to survive more than 100 years ago.

The documentary shows how Endurance became stuck in the ice and eventually sank in 1915. Shackleton and his crew survived 589 days, traveling 800 miles across the Antarctic to South Georgia before they were finally rescued in 1916. After Shackleton's experience with the Endurance, he served in the British Army and continued...