Documentary uncovers cannibal crew

British explorer Sir John Franklin and his crew had set off to find the Northwest Passage to the Orient and mysteriously vanished. After six years of searching, John Rae, a Scottish doctor working for the Hudson’s Bay Company, found the remains of the crew.

But his findings — particularly the revelation that the crew had resorted to cannibalism — were so shocking that Rae’s version was torn down and discredited. With the help of Charles Dickens, the native population became the cannibals in the accepted history.