The Great White Silence (1924)

Directed by

Herbert Ponting

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 48m

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 58 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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How it feels

This documentary shows footage from the Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica in the early 1910s. It presents the daily life and work of the explorers in the frozen landscape.

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What happens

The Great White Silence is a 1924 English documentary that contains brief cinematograph sequences taken during the Terra Nova Expedition of 1910–1913. The principal filmmaker was photographer Herbert Ponting. Originally a silent film, the documentary was restored and re-released in 2011 by the British Film Institute with a musical soundtrack by Simon Fisher Turner. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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