This film's closing quotation reads: ''Ernest Shackleton's name will for evermore be engraved with letters of fire in the history of Antarctic exploration.'' - Roald Amundsen.
The Australian DVD release of this title includes as well the documentary 'Shackleton and Scott: Rivals for the Pole' (2001).
This documentary's closing credits state that this film was: ''Distributed with the support of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union''.