The RMS Titanic sank below the icy waters of the north Atlantic in the early-morning hours of April 15, 1912. Now, 100 years later, it's considered one of the greatest disasters of the 20th century, the basis of one of the biggest movies of the 20th century and the cause of everyone's problems on "Downton Abbey." To commemorate the anniversary, director James Cameron gave a multimillion-dollar 3-D face-lift to his movie epic, "Titanic" and re-released it into theaters. But for those watching the small screen, there are still lots of ways to relive those moments without heading out to the theater.
National Geographic Channel is, quite understandably, all over the anniversary. After all, Cameron is an explorer-in-residence, along with Robert Ballard, the man credited with discovering the wreck of the Titanic in the modern era. Both men are getting new specials on National Geographic Channel, both premiering a week before the anniversary and both re-airing during a nine-hour Titanic marathon on Sunday.
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"Titanic: The Final Word With James Cameron" features the director and sometime deep-sea diver working with engineers, architects, historians and a 42-foot replica of the ship itself to solve all the remaining mysteries behind how and why the massive vessel sank like it did.
Meanwhile, "Save the Titanic With Bob Ballard," looks at the very real jeopardy the ship is in today, as treasure hunters are slowly but surely looting the wreck. He also travels to Ireland to meet the descendants of Titanic's Guarantee Group, the nine men who helped build the ship and were selected to sail on its maiden voyage.
National Geographic will also air five hours of the "Rebuilding Titanic" series, in which modern-day craftsmen attempt to re-create portions of the mighty ship using the practices that were used to build it in the first place.
On PBS on Tuesday, "Dancing With the Stars" judge Len Goodman goes back to his roots as a welder at Harland & Woolf, the company that built Titanic, and interviews the descendants of the ship's passengers -- both the survivors and the victims. "Titanic With Len Goodman" airs at 8 p.m., so it won't interfere with Goodman's other appearance on the "Dancing With the Stars" results show on ABC.
ABC has its own "Titanic" film on the way on Saturday, with the two-night miniseries, titled "Titanic." What sets this production apart from Cameron's big-screen extravaganza is the name on the scripts: Julian Fellowes. Fellowes is the man behind the PBS hit "Downton Abbey," and this miniseries looks to be taking many of the class issues from the show and bringing them to sea.
Turner Classic Movies will air two Titanic-themed movies on Saturday: the 1958 version of the Titanic's final voyage "A Night to Remember" and the 1964 Debbie Reynolds musical, "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," about the Titanic survivor.
Discovery will air a trio of Titanic-themed documentaries on Saturday: "Last Mysteries of the Titanic," featuring James Cameron's return dives to the wreck, "Titanic: Birth of the Legend," about the construction of the mighty ship, and "What Sank Titanic?" about the ship's final moments.
On Sunday, History will air three Titanic documentaries: "Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces," recounts a 2005 trip to the wreck to attempt to determine exactly how the ship sank. "Titanic's Achilles Heel" follows experts to the wreck of the similarly designed ship, the Brittanic, as they investigate whether the ship had a fatal flaw in its design. And then comes the premiere of "Titanic at 100: Mystery Solved," which presumably will answer every other question left unanswered about the wreck. Which, judging from the number of people on Twitter who weren't even aware it was real, should mean there are still plenty of questions out there.

 

The Titanic was a real ship? I thought it was just a movie :neutral:

 

A movie with human ice cubes!!

 

I've been accused of not knowing what ice-cubes were!! Apparently water tastes better with them?!?!

 

Gotta have ice cubes in my water...except sea water.

 

Sorry, but I just don't have any sympathy for those people who drowned. Seriously, who would be stupid enough to get on a boat called the "Titanic"...talk about dumb!

 

Who fucking cares.

Put you name on the list....starting here....

#1.......Mr and Mrs Rich Cunting Bastard....

 

Talk about a money maker. Titanic has so far made 1.843 billion dollars and is again making more money with the release of Titanic 3D in theaters now. James Cameron was smart taking a cut of the tail end of the film instead of a salary for directing it. I think it was 20% of box office ... not a bad payday if I do say so myself.

RIP to all those that went down with the ship 100 years ago today.

PS ... I still shake my head that they actually made a sequel to Titanic, kind of a moot point don't you think ???

Oh ya ... Kate Winslet is is such a hottie in this film. :excited:

Footnote: James Cameron had to re-shoot the scene where Rose was in the water because the constellation in the sky was not depicted correctly for the time of night that they were in the water.

 

You must be fucking joking.

She's more like a drowned rat.....

but I guess you go for that all 'damsel in distress' thing.....

ha ha.....sucker!

 

I can only imagine what you would say if I told you that another Kate (Cate) that turns my crank is Cate Blanchett. :excited::excited::excited:

I guess we can't all go for the "barbie doll" look huh ???

 

No....it doesn't suit me.....

and I'm damn fucking sure it wouldn't suit you either.

(laughs out loud)

PS. The other Cate is not bad.......

 

Yup ... as close to "Barbie" as I get is Jillian Barberie Reynolds. :excited:

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I blame ALL of that disaster on the Captain....he did not heed the warnings eventhough the ice bergs were farther south than they were supposed to be....but his ego cost the lives of alot of men, women and children....full steam ahead my ass

 

If anyone is interested in the whole Titanic thing ... here is a link to a film by James Cameron about the 100 year anniversary of the sinking with some new info that has come to light since the making of the film in 1997.

http://www.vidbux.com/qf920wfybp9j/....The.Final.Word.PDTV.XviD.Trendyface.flv.html

 

crap film, everybody knew the ending decades before the film was even made.

 

1500 plus people died ........:rose:

 

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Are you drunk?
Hello, wake up , Tcl, are you listening? Good. "3rd class and "steerage" while I don't know their incomes, are hardly `rich' and its quite a desperate denouncement here, probs with the rich/ affluent of late?

OP: good post, though the part about the `twits' kind of confirms my view of this service as a forum for vapid blather.

Another good link:

https://apps.facebook.com/theguardi...source=aggregation&fb_action_types=news.reads

"The British inquiry held in the wake of the disaster found little fault with the Titanic's Captain, EJ Smith; though the ship was travelling at too high a speed they determined he was merely following an accepted method of navigation that had, until then, resulted in no loss of life.

The inquiry did however criticise Stanley Lord, then master of the Californian, for failing to respond to Titanic's distress signals, suggesting that his ship may have 'saved many, if not all, of the lives that were lost' if he had done so. Lord was dogged by the accusation for the remainder of his life."

 

I hear ya ....... sometimes.. ??????????????:wall:

 

Very near this exact time 100 years ago (2:20AM to be exact), if you were lucky enough to get off of the Titanic you would be seeing the Propeller slowly sinking beneath the surface of the Atlantic ocean. If you weren't lucky enough to get off you would be seeing a bunch of fish by now.

RIP

Edit: sorry the time is off a bit as the time was GMT-3

PS ... one must have known that the ship would suffer an ill fate as it never was christened.