The Unsinkable Titanic

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Everyone knows that an iceberg sank The Unsinkable Titanic leaving more than 1,500 people to perish in one of the greatest maritime disasters in history.

But this striking new film argues that it was actually a long chain of misjudgments, human errors and misfortunes that sealed the fate of the largest liner of its day, her passengers and crew. Had just one link in that chain been missing, history may have changed and disaster been avoided.

Made by the team responsible for Channel 4's previous re-examination of the Hindenburg disaster, the film draws on the latest research, as well as eyewitness testimonies, to reconstruct the story from the point of view of those involved, and de-bunk the many myths that have built up surrounding the Titanic. The film features the key characters, decisions and incidents responsible for calamity: the man who designed the ship, the owner of the shipping line who controversially escaped in one of the lifeboats whose numbers he himself had cut, the lookout who spotted the iceberg too late, the captain who steamed ahead ignoring warnings of ice, and the nearby ship which failed to heed Titanic's desperate calls for help.

It is a story of how an unquestioning faith in technology, and a series of apparently small and unrelated errors, condemned so many people to death, and how there could have been a very different outcome.

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