Milestone announces home video release for the first-time-ever of

SOUTH

Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition



Milestone is pleased to announce the home video release of South: Ernest

Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition. This is the year to discover an

80-year-old legend. After his ship, the Endurance, was trapped and crushed by

polar ice, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his 27-member crew spent nearly two years

in the roughest weather on earth, surviving against impossible odds. Yet as

Shackleton later wrote, "Not a life lost and we have been through Hell."



A best-selling account of this expedition by Caroline Alexander (The

Endurance, Alfred A. Knopf, 1998) has been featured in virtually every

magazine and newspaper in the country including Time Magazine, New Yorker,

Wall Street Journal, People, National Geographic, New York Times, and Los

Angeles Times. On February 28, CBS Sunday Morning aired a major piece on

Shackleton’s journey calling it "the greatest survival story of the 20th

century." And a major motion picture based on the Endurance expedition is

currently in production, starring Liam Neeson (Schindler’s List) and directed

by Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, In the line of Fire).



On April 10, the American Museum of Natural History in New York will present

an exhibition of more than 150 compelling images by expedition photographer

Frank Hurley, artifacts from the voyage such as the lifeboat used in their

epic ocean crossing, and sections on the journey’s historic and geographic

context, the science of ice, and navigation.



Yet all this time, no one has been able to see the stunning 1919 documentary

film produced by Shackleton and directed by the remarkable Frank Hurley

capturing the actual Endurance expedition in its full glory. Until now …



After six years of spectacular restoration work by the British Film Institute,

South, the film that captured one of the greatest epics of courage and

leadership in history, is now ready to be seen in its intended tinted and

toned format. Produced from the original archival materials, with a brand new

score, South’s video release coincides with a national theatrical tour of a

brand new 35mm print in over fifty cities. This is the latest landmark release

in the Age of Exploration series (winner of the Viva Gold! Award from Video

Magazine) by Milestone Films.





Price: $29.95 plus $5.00 shipping and handling, $6.00 for Canada. (Sorry,

Canada & US only)

Public Performance is $59.90 plus shipping and handling.



88 minutes - Tinted and Toned - Director: Frank Hurley - Release Date; April

10, 1999



Contact: Dennis Doros at Milestone Film & Video

275 West 96th Street, Suite 28C New York, NY 10025

Phone: 1-800-602-1104 or 212-865-7449

Fax: 212-222-8952

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www.milestonefilms.com



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