90° South / 90 Degrees South (1933) dir. Herbert George Ponting

The original film of Captain R F Scott’s expedition to Antarctica and the South Pole in 1910 and 1911, with commentary and music added for the new release in 1933. The first half of the film describes the voyage there in the “Terra Nova“, the establishment of the camp, the living conditions, the work of the scientists and the first winter. The second summer and Scott’s awful expedition to the Pole with a man-hauled sledge and a diet that must itself have meant death. After the disappointment of finding that Amundsen had reached the Pole some weeks before, the terrible return journey in appalling conditions, the five men frozen, snow-blinded, diseased and exhausted. Petty Officer Evans’s death and Captain Oates’s walk into the blizzard to die for his comrades, and the death of the last three, just eleven miles from a depot of stores.