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In 1845, Sir John Franklin sailed into the Arctic with two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and 129 men to find the Northwest Passage, the sea route over the top of North America. None of them came home. This is the full story of the lost Franklin expedition, and why it took so long to believe what the Inuit had said all along. 🔔 Subscribe to Route Zero for documentaries about the world's most dangerous routes: https://www.youtube.com/@UCxVZAqLo6_8BfhoabezmsZw?sub_confirmation=1 In 2024, DNA from a jawbone found on King William Island identified Captain James Fitzjames of HMS Erebus, and the bone carried cut marks. For three centuries, explorers from Martin Frobisher and Henry Hudson to Jens Munk tried to force a way through the Arctic ice. Franklin's ships were trapped off King William Island in September 1846; the Victory Point note tells us the 105 survivors abandoned them in April 1848 and walked south. Britain refused to believe John Rae's report of Inuit testimony, and Charles Dickens blamed the Inuit. This documentary follows the search that mapped the Northwest Passage, the discovery of the wrecks of HMS Erebus (2014) and HMS Terror (2016) guided by Inuit oral history, the DNA identifications of Franklin's sailors, Roald Amundsen's first voyage through in the Gjøa (1903–06), and how shrinking Arctic sea ice is opening the passage today. If Franklin's men had listened to the Inuit, could any of them have made it home? Tell me what you think in the comments. CHAPTERS 0:00 The Franklin expedition: a jawbone, a DNA match, and cut marks 0:59 The search for a Northwest Passage: Frobisher, Hudson, Munk 2:35 HMS Erebus and HMS Terror: the Franklin expedition, 1845 4:37 The search for Franklin, John Rae and the Victory Point note 7:01 What the Inuit knew: the wrecks, the lead theory, the DNA 9:37 Roald Amundsen and the Gjøa: the first ship through 10:39 The Northwest Passage today: melting sea ice and who owns it 12:34 Could they have made it home? SOURCES • Northwest Passage transits: R. K. Headland, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge (2025). https://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/resources/infosheets/northwestpassage.pdf • Arctic sea ice: NSIDC Sea Ice Index v4; NSIDC 2025 minimum. https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today • Franklin expedition, ships and crew: Parks Canada. https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/nu/epaveswrecks • Victory Point note: F. L. McClintock, The Voyage of the Fox (1859). • Search expeditions: W. G. Ross, Arctic (2002). • John Rae's report and Dickens' reply: Canadian Mysteries archive. • Cut marks: Keenleyside, Bertulli & Fricke, Arctic (1997). • Lead: Beattie & Geiger, Frozen in Time (1987); Swanston et al., PLOS ONE (2018). • Inuit oral history, Louie Kamookak, Sammy Kogvik: CBC News. • DNA identifications: University of Waterloo (2021, 2024, 2026); Stenton, Fratpietro & Park (2024); Polar Record (2026). • Frobisher, Hudson, Munk, McClure, Amundsen: Royal Museums Greenwich; Fram Museum. • Sovereignty: Belfer Center, Harvard; US Naval Institute Proceedings (1988). IMAGES, MUSIC AND SOUND • 1845 daguerreotypes (Richard Beard studio); portraits of Frobisher, Jane Franklin, McClure and Rae; Collier, Musin, Landseer; Jens Munk (1624); Amundsen and the Gjøa (Library of Congress, National Library of Norway): public domain. • Beechey Island graves: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5. Gjoa Haven: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Crystal Serenity: CC0. • Maps: SRTM / GMTED / ETOPO1 relief and NASA imagery (public domain); coastlines Natural Earth and GSHHG. Routes approximate. • Ship paintings and the Erebus Bay boat: illustrations and reconstructions (Stable Diffusion XL; 3D), not photographs. • Ice sounds: US National Park Service (public domain); NOAA PMEL Acoustics Program. Music: MusicGen. Narration: Route Zero. ▶ Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/@UCxVZAqLo6_8BfhoabezmsZw?sub_confirmation=1 #NorthwestPassage #FranklinExpedition #Documentary

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