Titanic Sinks Tonight

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Docu Drama about that fatal night in 4 episodes with a countdown clock.

Surprised it's quite good, very binge worthy!!!

I love the way it's been put together, it's been really well done, at the same time as finding it too heartbreaking, and like pp, I was still wishing that the lad on the lifeboat got away with it...the ladies hiding him with their skirts, you would wouldn't you. 💔 It's those human details that are devastating.

I think it’s very good. I’m fascinated by the Titanic, it’s wrong to say I’m enjoying it because it was tragic, but good to see a factual account.

I thought this was brilliant.

Are the people commenting and telling their version of events supposed to be some of the passengers aboard who lost their lives?

It's original witness testimony I think so I think the only thing from anyone who died would be if they'd written something down.

Titanic Sinks Tonight is a part-documentary, part-drama series playing across four nights, its episodes constructed from letters and diaries written by those on board, as well as interviews the survivors would give in the decades after.

I'm finding episode 1 pretty gruelling and I've had to take a couple of breaks.

Isn't it amazing almost 114 years after it happened it's still very firmly lodged in people's minds.

Guardian review.

Titanic Sinks Tonight review – it’s like you’re reliving that terrifying night | Television | The Guardian https://share.google/jGvgu3I7gvyZ2ELeF

Tyger Drew-Honey is a revelation in this.

I'm finding it a bit dry (no irony intended) tbh. Not how I was thinking it was going to be. Far too unemotional for something that was super emotional imho.

Which one is he?

Jack, with the American accent, no?

Ah! Thanks.

I've finished epiose 1. I think it's made worse because we all know what happened.

Like the Guardian reviewer says, I feel like I'm there on board. My CH made a gurgling noise and I jumped!

It's very intense. I'm glad it's broken up with the historian interjections, otherwise I'd be a nervous wreck. I'm feeling quite tense as it is.

No, not the American. Just been on screen now. Looks a lot older in this than real life.

The Outnumbered lad is Harold Bride.

Harold Bride.

Yes, Harold Bride.

I suppose its could also have been a straight drama.
Its made me realise im totally up for new dramas/ films regarding the Titanic as long as they are really well acted.
I love the time period.
They needed more people on those bloody lifeboats!!

Oh, God, at poor Philips, the wireless operator 😢

Did he get on a lifeboat, all I saw is the other Wireless guy walk past him and he was dead.

He got on a lifeboat but died onboard. Didn't make it in time to be picked up by the Carpathia.

You all need to listen to the radio four series. I posted the link up the thread. It’s much more in depth.

That’s what Dh said when I started watching it 🤣

What a difference there is now in relation to trauma. Those survivors would be carrying what happened to them for the rest of their lives, especially the parts where they had to listen to hundreds of people screaming as they were dying, whilst they sat in lifeboats traumatised into doing nothing.

Yes. Eva Hart (survived aged 7) said she couldn't bear to hear the hymn "Nearer My God to Thee" played in church for the rest of her days, as it was the last played by the band as the ship was going down. She said the screams were terrible. As was the almost complete silence not long afterwards.

I've read and seen so much about the Titanic since 1985. This series has really pierced my soul like few others have done.

I agree. It's a well thought out documentary from the "birth" of the ship until its end and the enquiry after (which is where the questions asked by the off-screen voice in the programme came from).

Superb programme! So interesting and thought provoking.

I've always known that the social hierarchy in the Edwardian period was incredibly rigid, but listening to how it actually played out in reality really hit home. Those poor engineers who spent so long trying to keep things going and they were completely forgotten about.

The statistics that came up at the end about how many of each class of passenger, and how many crew, perished, was incredibly sobering.

I had had no idea before this just how many crew died.