The Great White Silence

Overview

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.)

Directed by Herbert G. Ponting

Top cast

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Robert Falcon Scott

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Herbert G. Ponting

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Henry R. Bowers

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Edgar Evans

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Lawrence E.G. Oates

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Edward Adrian Wilson

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George P. Abbott

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Edward Leicester Atkinson

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Alfred B. Cheetham

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard

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Tom Crean

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Frank Debenham

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Harry Dickason

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Edward Ratcliffe 'Teddy' Evans

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Robert Forde

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Tryggve Gran

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Patrick Keohane

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William Lashly

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G. Murray Levick

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Dennis G. Lillie

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