The Great White Silence (1924)

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.)

Genres: Documentary

Directed by Herbert G. Ponting

Starring Robert Falcon Scott, Herbert G. Ponting, Henry R. Bowers, Edgar Evans, Lawrence E.G. Oates, Edward Adrian Wilson, George P. Abbott, Edward Leicester Atkinson, Alfred B. Cheetham, Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Running time: 108 minutes