The birth of film coincided with the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration. Here, together for the first time, are the films of the great explorers Roald Amundsen, Nobu Shirase, Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton, whose stories, together with those of Robert Falcon Scott (see the BFI's 'The Great White Silence') are of extraordinary human endurance and our relationship with the natural world, seen in dramatic moving images.
The Films Comprise: - Antarctic Expedition: Sir George Newnes' Farewell to Officers and Crew (1898, 1 min)
- Departure of Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition from Lyttelton, NZ, 1st Jan, 1908 (1908, 8 mins)
- Nihon nankyoku tanken (1910-12, 19 mins)
- Fram's South Polar Expedition (1910-12, 22 mins)
- Australasian Antarctic Expedition Films aka The Home of the Blizzard (c 1916, 68 mins)
- Pathe's Animated Gazette No. 140 (extract, 1911, 45 secs)
- South - Sir Ernest Shackleton's Glorious Epic of the Antarctic (Frank Hurley, 1919, 81 mins)
- Topical Budget - Dogs for the Antarctic (extract, 1914, 1 min)
- Dogs for the Antarctic - Sir Ernest Shackleton's dogs in quarantine at Beddington (extract, 1914, 45 secs)
- Australasian Gazette - Captain Davis returns to Sydney...(extract, 1917, 26 secs)
- The Late Sir Ernest Shackleton Bathing Query (extract, 1922, 2 mins)
- El Homenaje del Uruguay a los Restos de Sir Ernest Shackleton (1922, 11 mins)
- Shackleton's Funeral (extract, 1922, 4 mins)
- Shackleton South Georgia Birds (1920, 13 mins)
English Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Digital 5.1, Japanese Dolby Digital 2.0, Japanese Dolby Digital 5.1, Silent, Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles:
English
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
Colour:
B & W, Tinted and Toned
Bonus:
'South' audio commentary by Luke McKernan (2002)
Neil Brand on Scoring 'South' (2022, 15 mins): the composer on his approach to the new score
Neil Brand's 2002 score for 'South'
Map of Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition with commentary by Kelly Tyler-Lewis (2002, 2 mins)
Ross Sea Party (1917, 9 mins): footage shot by Aubrey Howard Ninnis, the Aurora's purser, and Alexander Stevens Chief Scientist presented with Kelly Tyler-Lewis 2002 narration
Additional footage from 'South' (1919, 19 mins)
My South Polar Expedition (1910, 4 mins, audio): Shackleton recorded a week after returning to New Zealand
Shackleton Speaks (1910, 1 min, audio): recording of Shackleton naming his Nimrod crew
Disc 1:
This disc includes the following Films: - British Antarctic (Southern Cross) Expedition, 1898 - 1900 - British Antarctic (Nimrod) Expedition, 1907-1909 - Japanese Antarctic Expedition, 1910 - 1912 - Amundsen's South Pole Expedition, 1910 - 1912 - Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911 - 1914
Disc 2:
This disc includes the following Films: - Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914 - 1917 - Shackleton-Rowett Expedition, 1921 - 1922 - Special Features
BBFC:
Release Date:
28/02/2022
Run Time:
234 minutes
Languages:
English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, English LPCM Stereo, Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Japanese LPCM Stereo, Silent, Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Spanish LPCM Stereo
Subtitles:
English
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
Colour:
B & W, Tinted and Toned
BLU-RAY Regions:
B
Bonus:
'South' audio commentary by Luke McKernan (2002)
Neil Brand on Scoring 'South' (2022, 15 mins): the composer on his approach to the new score
Neil Brand's 2002 score for 'South'
Map of Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition with commentary by Kelly Tyler-Lewis (2002, 2 mins)
Ross Sea Party (1917, 9 mins): footage shot by Aubrey Howard Ninnis, the Aurora's purser, and Alexander Stevens Chief Scientist presented with Kelly Tyler-Lewis 2002 narration
Additional footage from 'South' (1919, 19 mins)
My South Polar Expedition (1910, 4 mins, audio): Shackleton recorded a week after returning to New Zealand
Shackleton Speaks (1910, 1 min, audio): recording of Shackleton naming his Nimrod crew
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