The harrowing tale of that aborted and rerouted attempt to cross Antarctica on foot, just after the outbreak of the First World War. It's quite a tale, all right, and documentarist George Butler puts it into a tidy little package of tinted footage and still photos taken by the party's official historian, Frank Hurley; supplementary drawings and paintings from the period when the film supply was running low; new color footage of the region; readings from the men's diaries and letters; interviews with their descendants; and narration spoken by Liam Neeson. Two arduous years in a painless hour and a half. (2001) — Duncan Shepherd
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