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Adapted by multi-award-winning writer and director Andrew Haigh, this is a thrilling tale of struggle and survival.

Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, disgraced ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner signs up as the ship's doctor on an ill-fated Arctic whaling expedition. Soon he's confronted by a new horror, the brutish killer Henry Drax. Based on the critically acclaimed novel by Ian McGuire and featuring a top-name cast, The North Water throws us into a world of blood and ice. When Sumner and his crew mates are left stranded on the merciless Arctic wasteland, he discovers just how far he's prepared to go against the savagery of nature and man.