7/10
Nominated 1939 Best Short Subject
13 April 1999
Amazing and true story of young US Navy officer in 1825 after injury caused him to become desk bound discovered and charted wind and ocean currents, also planned Panama canal, and father of modern weather map. His work was largely forgotten because he chose to support the South during Civil War and was branded a traitor.
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