The Great White Silence
May 01 1924
•2h 48m
•Documentary
Herbert Ponting travelled to Antarctica with Captain Scott’s ill-fated South Pole expedition and filmed the stunning images that make up this extraordinary documentary. (Originally released in 1912 as With Captain Scott in the Antarctic, the material was re-edited and re-issued by Ponting in 1924 as The Great White Silence.)
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Robert Falcon Scott
Self
Herbert G. Ponting
Self
Henry R. Bowers
Self
Edgar Evans
Self
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