The Finest Hours (2016)

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Drama: Action & Adventure

30/08/2016

BBC One - The Finest Hours

A coastguard team tackle brutal conditions as they attempt to save lives. With Chris Pine.

Drama based on a true story. A small US coastguard team tackle gigantic waves and gale-force winds as they attempt to save 30 sailors stranded on a rapidly sinking oil tanker.

Drama based on a true story, recounting one of history's most daring coastguard rescue attempts. Stranded on a sinking oil tanker along with 30 other sailors, engineer Ray Sybert battles to buy his crew more time as Captain Bernie Webber and three of his colleagues tackle gigantic waves and gale-force winds in their astonishing bid to save the seamen.

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