The true story of two explorers in the early 1900s and their pursuit to be the first person to reach the South Pole - the last uncharted territory on the planet.

Englishman Robert Falcon Scott and Norwegian Roald Amundsen were explorers from antithetical countries: one from the era's most powerful empire, the other from a country that had just achieved independence. Their race, seen as heroic during a golden age of exploration, sparked international interest and galvanized the world to see who would reach Earth's southernmost point first.