Titanic: Building the World's Largest Ship

Lost Liners

January 2000 •English

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.

Luxury at Sea: The Greatest Liners

August 2020 •English

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

Carly Simon - A Moonlight Serenade On The Queen Mary 2

November 2005 •English

Carly Simon and a 15-piece orchestra perform both original songs and classic standards on six-day voyage from New York City to Southampton, England onboard the most famous ocean liner in the world.

Cruise Ship Down: Saving Concordia

July 2014 •English

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

Shipyard

June 2009 •English

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.

Klar zur Wende - Rückenwind für Frachtsegler

April 2014 •German

Titanic: The Complete Story

July 1994 •English

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.

Visit to a Shipbuilding Yard

March 1951 •English

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

The Coast of Commerce

May 1962 •English

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

Rebuilding Titanic

June 2011 •English

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

Salving a Steamer

August 1915 •English

“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.

Le Normandie, un géant à la française

September 2019 •French

La Grande Aventure du France

June 2020 •French

Den sista båten

December 1983 •Swedish

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

The Occupation of Cockatoo Island 1989

Invalid date •English

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

The Launch of the Punta Medanos at Wallsend

February 1950 •English

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

Balmoral

April 2025 •English

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.

Emmalou's First Year

February 1965 •English

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

The Sap from Syracuse

July 1930 •English

Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he foils two crooks trying to get their hands on her lucrative nickel mine.

Dangerous Crossing

July 1953 •English

A honeymoon aboard an ocean liner is cut short when the bride finds herself suddenly alone, and unable to convince anyone of her husband’s existence.