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South is a documentary about Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which departed from South Georgia in 1914 to search for a passage through the South Pole. Although it was not the first time that a cameraman went on such an expedition, the first time was in 1903, South was the first long movie made of a Pole expedition. Although the First World War had just begun, First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill gave the green light for this expedition. In order to prevent people from thinking that crew members shirk the moral duty to serve, Shackleton and his crew were put in a military uniform on departure. Shackleton had an unconventional way of choosing his crew. He asked them one or two questions and then decided if they could join. In one case he did not ask any questions at all and took a man on because he thought he looked funny. It is therefore astonishing that all crew members survived this  failed expedition. The only ones who did not retur

Those who think this is a filming of George Bernard Shaw's play with the same name from 1897, I have to disappoint. This is a chronological record of the most important events of Napoleon's life. The film begins with the introduction of the most important characters from Napoleon's life. As he dozes on his throne, he is dreaming about what he has made of his life. This 25-minute movie gets only a 4.4 on the Internet Movie Database. Although I understand this low appreciation, I do not really agree with it. I think you need to judge a movie in view of the time it was created. Although the close-up was already invented, they were rarely used in 1908. Film was seen primarily as a recording of a play, but without sound. So also this production contains only total images. Precisely because the facial expressions were difficult to see, the emotion with great gestures had to be shown. Only after 1911, with Griffith's short film 'The Lonedale Operator', more u