Cook Peary The Race to the Pole (1983)

Cook and Peary The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the conquering of the North Pole Robert E Peary Rod Steiger a US Navy commander and shameless selfpromoter sets out through Arctic wastes in 1909 to discover the Pole an expedition that many others have attempted but failed to complete His principal rival is Dr Frederick A Cook Richard Chamberlain who insists that hed already reached the Pole in 1908 Though the experts and the US Congress conclude that Perry was first public opinion is firmly in Cooks corneras is this TV movie