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Vindication Swim (2024) on Netflix

NR20241h 34mBiographyDramaHistory

In 1927, Mercedes Gleitze sets out to swim the English Channel. No British woman has made the crossing, and cold water and 1920s society stand in her way.

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Mercedes Gleitze is a swimmer in Britain in the 1920s. In 1927 she sets out to swim the English Channel, and no British woman has made that crossing before her. Harold Best is her coach, and the cold water of the Channel is one thing she has to face. The society she lives in is another, and it works against a woman taking on the feat.

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  • Filming began on 12 August 2019 with the English Channel swimming sequences shot off the coast of Newhaven, and the Sussex shoot for on-land interiors and exteriors was then delayed several times by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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