The Birthday Boys

A haunting and incisive group portrait of the crewmembers aboard Captain Scott's doomed Antarctic expedition. They set off from Cardiff in 1910, racing to plant the first flag in the South Pole: the burly Petty Officer Taff Evans; the introspective scientist Edward Wilson; the sanguine Lieutenant Birdie Bowers; the brooding Captain Lawrence Oates; and their tragic, conflicted leader, Captain Scott...