Titanic: Building the World's Largest Ship

Documents the Cockatoo Island Dockyard occupation and industrial actions of 1989.

Take a revealing tour along a coast of contrasts, from the folksy freshness of Whitby to the coaly Tyne, queen of all rivers.

The "unsinkable" Titanic was a dream come true: four city blocks long and a passenger list worth 250 million dollars. But on her maiden voyage in April 1912, that dream became a nightmare when the giant ship struck an iceberg and sunk in the cold North Atlantic. More than 1,500 lives were lost in one of the greatest disasters of the 20th century. Now, using newsreels, stills, diaries, and exclusive interviews with survivors, Titanic: The Complete Story recounts the sensational history of the premier liner. In Part I: Death of a Dream, the largest ship ever built is christened in Ireland before a cheering crowd of 100,000. Witness the disaster this trek becomes as numerous iceberg warnings go unheeded and the ship sinks in the icy North Atlantic. In Part II: The Legend Lives On, over-packed lifeboats edge away from the crippled liner as a futile SOS signals flare into the night--leaving 1,500 passengers to a watery grave.

As historic ships vanish from British waters, a group of passionate volunteers fights to save the Balmoral—a 1949 passenger vessel moored in Bristol’s iconic harbour—battling time, bureaucracy, and financial struggles to preserve a piece of maritime history before it’s lost forever.

Klar zur Wende - Rückenwind für Frachtsegler

Dr. Bob Ballard explores the histories and the final resting places of famous 20th-century passenger liners, including the Titanic, the Lusitania, and the Empress of Ireland.

Le Normandie, un géant à la française

Celebrate engineering feats that conquered oceans with a look at historic liners—from the luxurious decks to the mechanisms that kept them afloat.

La Grande Aventure du France

Experts rebuild iconic sections of the Titanic, using shipbuilding industry methods of a hundred years ago.

Relive the infamous 2012 shipwreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia and follow the engineering feat to raise her.

A party of children take an eye-opening tour of John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank.

The wharf in Landskrona launches its final boat as the workers get ready for unemployment.

Tyneside shipyard Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson turns out a beast of a tanker for the Argentine Navy.

Shipyard is a landmark documentary covering the creation and life of Bellingham, Washington's wooden boat shipyard, which was built in response to the Axis threat of WWII, it's continued growth through the '50's and '60's, as well as it's innovative role in the development and production of fiberglass boats, including patrol riverboats for the Vietnam war.

“Chicago’s Titanic” the S.S. Eastland, a Great Lakes passenger ship in which 844 people lost their lives, is brought up from the seabed.

A lovingly crafted home movie charting the maiden voyage of the Brown family's new yacht.

Wrongly accused of physically abusing a fellow actor, starving thespians Arthur and Maurice find themselves pursued by the law aboard a cruise ship.

Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship's Dr. Schumann, who falls in love with one of the passengers, La Condesa. A young American woman, Jenny, is traveling with the man she loves, David. Jenny is fascinated and puzzled by just who some of the other passengers are.

Tom Whitney, well connected but a social derelict because of his weakness for drink, is released from the draft because of an old football Injury, but a policeman persuades him that he can still do his bit in the shipyards. He takes a job in the yard owned by the man to whose daughter he was engaged in happier times. Three German propagandists seek to foment a strike to delay the work, and largely through Tom's efforts the plan goes amiss and the strike is called off. Rehabilitated by work, the launching of The Liberty is a forecast of his own rebirth.