记录了欧内斯特·沙克尔顿爵士在1914年至1916年间英勇却不幸的横穿南极大陆的尝试。这部影片既是一份独特的历史文献，也是对这支探险队不屈不挠的勇气的颂歌。他们踏上了一段探索之旅，最终却演变成一场史诗般的生存之战。影片由英国电影学院国家档案馆利用各种素材修复而成，并进行了着色和调色处理，以匹配原始胶片，最终呈现出这部精美绝伦、色彩丰富的作品，生动地展现了探险史上这一非凡的篇章。影片还附带了大量来自世界各地的影片资料（其中许多此前从未公开），重点介绍了南极探险英雄时代的多项探险活动。影片包括：Antarctic Expedition: Sir George Newnes' Farewell to Officers and Crew (1998, 1 min); Departure of Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition from Lyttelton, New Zealand, 1908 (1908, 8 mins); Nihon nankyoku tanken (1912, 19 mins); Fram's South Polar Expedition (22 mins); Australasian Antarctic Expedition Films aka The Home of the Blizzard (c1916, 68 mins); Pathé’s Animated Gazette No. 140 (extract, 1911, 45 secs); South – Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Glorious Epic of the Antarctic (Frank Hurley, 1919, 81 mins); Topical Budget - Dogs for the Antarctic (extract, 1914, 1 min); Dogs for the Antarctic - Sir Ernest Shackleton's dogs in quarantine at Beddington (extract, 1914, 1 min); Australasion Gazette - Captain Davis returns to Sydney... (extract, 1917, 30 secs); The Late Sir Ernest Shackleton Bathing Query (extract, 1922, 2 mins); El Homenaje Del Uruguay A Los Restos De Sir Ernest Shackleton (1922, 11 mins); Shackleton's Funeral (extract, 1922, 5 mins); Shackleton South Georgia Birds (1920, 13 mins)