This week's new DVD & Blu-ray

The Great White Silence DVD & Blu-ray, BFI Considering the year and the conditions, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Captain Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition of 1910 couldn't have been thoroughly documented on film. It just wasn't possible back then to film in such adverse conditions, was it? In fairness, it really wasn't – this was a journey to an area they weren't even sure humans could survive in, let alone primitive film equipment. Seeing this amazing movie, then, is like seeing footage of the building of the pyramids or the sinking of the Titanic – it shouldn't exist, but it does. That's thanks to film-maker Herbert Ponting who, in an era that was all about making the impossible happen, went where no cameraman had been before, hanging off the side of the ship to capture the prow smashing the pack ice and wandering off for days to document the lives of such exotic and then-mysterious creatures as penguins and seals. His footage is still stunning and spectacular and, when he recreates the final leg of the expedition using film of Scott's party training with the equipment they eventually died using, emotional too. Ponting's film was originally intended to tour the world with the returning Scott to illustrate his lectures. This reassembly, with an atmospheric score by Simon Fisher Turner that incorporates gramophone records from the expedition as well as the sound of the Terra Nova's ship's bell and some authentic Antarctic "silence", brings history to life. The Fighter Superior true-life boxing tale starring Mark Wahlberg, featuring Oscar-winning turns from Christian Bale and Melissa Leo. DVD & Blu-ray, Momentum Howl James Franco plays beat poet Allen Ginsberg in this arthouse drama based on the obscenity trial for Howl. DVD & Blu-ray, Soda It's Always Sunny In Philedelphia: Season One US comedy with Charlie Day and Kaitlin Olson as part of the desperate Gang trying to run a bar. DVD, 20th Century Fox Savage Streets Classic 1980s exploitation sleaze as The Exorcist's Linda Blair goes after local toughs with a crossbow. DVD, Arrow