Made-for-TV frequently means “deadly dull and cheap to boot,” but the A&E film Longitude was a surprisingly suspenseful -- and highly enlightening -- exception. From my review:

Here's a three-hour movie (four, with commercials) about clocks: clocks being built, clocks being taken apart, clocks being talked about, clocks being restored. It should be as boring as watching paint dry, but instead it's a thrilling intellectual adventure about the genius and obsession that drives both scientific discovery and scholarship.

• review of Longitude, posted 07.08.00

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