Shipwreck Movies

The gripping personal accounts of the people and the tragedy. In never-before-seen footage, we journey with historian Charles Haas, as he descends...

Working as a pageboy on an ocean liner, a street orphan and his friend Slugger end up on the wrong side of the ship's captain when they try to tell...

October 24, 1944, the world’s greatest battle at sea begins in the Philippines. Japan’s navy gambles on a decisive victory against the...

Drama documentary based on the latest discovery of a 16th Century sailing shipwreck found close to Malta by an underwater research team led by...

Marko Röhr's film crew takes the viewer to Europe's last unexplored area: Iceland's unique underwater world. We explore the geysers of boiling...

The sinking of the Titanic was far more than a simple accident. It was a tragedy that could have been prevented. It was the result of a long chain of...

This is a film about the response by a community to New Zealand’s largest environmental disaster, seen through the eyes of that community. The...

About the violent captain Gaustad on a ship of rape, mutiny and shipwreck, in the icy waters of Sweden. Two shipmates, Björn and Sigurd, survive...

Cappy Ricks, a crusty old sea captain, returns home from a long voyage to discover that his family and his business are in chaos--his daughter is set...

The sinking of the Lusitania and the impact it had in determining the fate of World War I is widely known. But few know the stories of the passengers...

The little known story of one of the worst non-combat disasters in the history of the US Navy, …AS IF THEY WERE ANGELS is a story of courage,...

Casablanca, 1961: Edoardo embarks on a covert and illegal mission to rescue a wrecked ship on the shores of the Atlantic. It is the promise of an...

In "The Search for the Titanic" Orson Welles takes the viewers into a massive expedition trying to locate the remains of the famous unsinkable ship...

Although Esther Whitaker is in love with Caleb Tilden, her sea captain father demands that she marry his first mate. However, Esther's grandfather...

Created in the Victorian era to widen the mouth of the River Tees for shipping, South Gare is a man-made peninsula extending four kilometres into the...

The SS Central America, a steamer carrying a cache of gold, sank off the southeast coast of the United States in 1857. Part mystery, part adventure...

For thousands of years, gold has been the most treasured and coveted of all metals. But extraction sites are dwindling and what little gold that...

In April 2015, two shipwrecks in the central Mediterranean resulted in over a thousand deaths. The first, on 12 April, occurred when an overcrowded...