South: Sir Ernest Shackleton's Glorious Epic of the Antarctic
Period & History
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Adventure, Documentary, History, UR, 26-Mar-1920
Shackleton's death over 100 years ago in 1922 is seen to have marked the end of the ‘heroic age’ of Antarctic exploration. A record of one of the greatest survival stories in the history of exploration, South is the original film – exquisitely photographed by Frank Hurley – of Shackleton’s 1914-16 Endurance expedition to Antarctica, during which the ship was crushed by ice, stranding the crew.
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