Watch Robert Falcon Scott: The Race to the Pole Online

Britain's best hope to be the first explorer to reach the South Pole, Robert Falcon Scott carved his niche in the history books as the man who arrived second, behind Norwegian rival Roald Amundsen. After seeing Amundsen's flag planted -- and knowing he had lost the race to the pole -- Scott and his men embarked on a doomed journey out of the arctic wilderness, a tragic expedition marked by starvation and death.