Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey until his proposed "Plan of Imperial trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-1916". The main storyline begins with then Lieutenant, Ernest Shackleton, on the Discovery Expedition of 1901 led by Robert Falcon Scott. Bertozzi then takes the reader through the time leading up to the main expedition, including Shackleton's funding efforts along with his wife Emily's trepidation over the journey. Moving forward Bertozzi gets to the stranding of the 28 member crew when their ship the Endurance becomes lodged in the ice. At this point Bertozzi begins to highlight the crew's attitude as they play soccer on the ice and hold theatrical performances as
The Great White Silence located on the Antarctic coastline. The documentary portrays expedition leader Robert Falcon Scott and his ship, the "Terra Nova", and men as they leave Lyttelton, New Zealand, to sail into the Southern Ocean and its ice floes. Safely landed on the icy coastline of Ross Island, the filmmaker follows the men as they set up tents, practice skiing, and prepare to probe southward toward the Pole. The film concludes with a sequence of the explorers pushing off from their base, and title cards reminding viewers of what, to the 1924 viewer, would have been the familiar story of the expedition's