Original footage from historical polar expeditions and some interesting later documentaries are presented below.
Do you want to know what Nansen or Shackleton sounded like or who attended Roald Amundsen's birthday party in 1926?
Watch the polar videos and find out!
Arctic
Solving the mystery of the Andrée Expedition 1930
Eivind Astrup - An Arctic Pioneer
Roald Amundsen through the Northwest Passage with Gjøa
Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth Expedition 1925
Roald Amundsen Lincoln Ellsworth arrive at Oslo 1926
Roald Amundsen Birthday Party 1926
Roald Amundsen - Norge Expedition Rome to Pulham 1926
Roald Amundsen - Norge Expedition Oslo 1926
Roald Amundsen - Norge Expedition Alaska 1926
British Arctic Air Route Expedition 1931
Byrd Arctic Expedition 1928
Cook arrives at Copenhagen 1909
Adolf Hoel og Arve Staxrud Spitsbergen Expedition 1914
USS Nautilus North Pole 1958
Umberto Nobile Italia Airship Expedition 1928
Russian Polar Flight Expedition 1937
USS Sargo North Pole 1960
USS Seadragon and USS Skate North Pole 1962
SAS Flight over North Pole 1954
The Spitsbergen Raid 1943
Walter Wellman - Spitsbergen 1906
Hubert Wilkins Nautilus Expedition 1931
Hubert Wilkins Soviet Search Expedition 1937
Ziegler Expedition 1902
Antarctic
Roald Amundsen's South Pole Journey 1910-12
Byrd Antarctic Expedition 1928
The Dogs of the Fram Expedition 1911
The Fram passes the Equator 1911
Scott Expedition - Terra Nova leaves Cardiff 1911
Scott Expedition - Return of Terra Nova 1913
Scott Expedition - Memorial Service 1913
Shackleton's Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition 1914
Ernest Shackleton My South Pole Expedition 1910
Ernest Shackleton Quest Expedition 1921
South Georgia Whalers 1957
Whale Hunting in the Southern Polar Seas 1932
Polar Documentaries
Roald Amundsen - Explorers BBC Documentary 1975
The Resurrection of Gjøa
The Diary of Captain Scott - Suspense Radio Theatre 1956