A gripping investigation into one of the most chilling maritime disasters in modern history. When a luxury submersible vanishes while descending toward the Titanic wreck, the world watches in suspense. Four days later, the truth shocks the globe: a catastrophic implosion, five lives lost, and a trail of ignored warnings. Through exclusive interviews and chilling archival footage, this film exposes the ambitious vision of an entrepreneur who defied engineering norms in pursuit of glory—and the irreversible consequences that followed. A haunting portrait of hubris, and the unforgiving power of the deep.
The untold story of the doomed steamship's construction, revealing how 15,000 men toiled day and night in life-threatening conditions to create a state-of-the-art floating city. Based on original blueprints and unseen archives, cutting-edge special effects bring this process back to life on screen, and explore how the outsize ambitions that made it all possible also led to the ship's dramatic demise.
For the first time, cutting-edge digital technology brings the world's most famous shipwreck back to life in a way never seen before. Dive into an immersive journey that reconstructs the Titanic with stunning realism, revealing groundbreaking discoveries and untold human stories frozen in time. Guided by leading experts and powered by advanced scans of the wreck, this extraordinary documentary fuses history, science, and emotion to offer a profound look at a tragedy that continues to haunt and fascinate the world.
The true story of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's journey from driven and ambitious scientist to remorseful and tormented man struck hard by the gravity of what he had done. For Oppenheimer, the successful detonation of the first atom bomb validates years of tireless work. But in this moment of seeming triumph, Oppenheimer sees before him a destructive power of almost supernatural magnitude. The films explores how one man's brilliance, hubris and relentless drive changed the nature of war forever.
We’re going back to the moon. Plans are being made, hardware is being designed, built, and tested to return humans to the moon and beyond in a new era of American space exploration. This episode explores how we did it in the past, and how and why we will do it again. The moon is critical to future explorations: it will be where we learn to build sustainable colonies on other worlds.
Take a look back at many of the most fascinating science stories of 2017, a year full of stunning advancements in individual fields of study, from astronomy to biology, geology to history – when we piece these discoveries together we see the year in a new light.
Through exclusive interviews and chilling archival footage, this film exposes the ambitious vision of an entrepreneur who defied engineering norms in pursuit of glory—and the irreversible consequences that followed. A haunting portrait of hubris, and the unforgiving power of the deep.