Herbert Ponting

The Great White Silence

Herbert Ponting

Herbert Ponting travelled to Antarctica as part of Captain Scott's ill-fated South pole expedition and shot the footage that makes up this extraordinary documentary.

90° South

Herbert Ponting

Herbert Ponting, E.R.G.R. Evans

This is a documentary of Captain R.F. Scott's second Antarctic expedition, begun in 1910. The British, under Scott, attempted to reach the South Pole before Roald Amundsen's Norwegians. Scott's writings reveal that the British made it to the South Pole, only to find that the Norwegians had gotten there first. Scott, and the other four men who had made it to the Pole with him, died on the return trip.

Captain Scott's South Pole Expedition

Herbert Ponting

Documentary released by Gaumont in 1912.