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The Sinking of the Laconia is a two-part television film, first aired on 6 and 7 January 2011 on BBC Two, about the Laconia incident; the sinking of the British ocean liner RMS Laconia during World War II by a German U-boat, which then, together with three other U-boats and an Italian submarine, rescued the passengers but was in turn attacked by an American bomber.
The Sea Gypsies (1978 film) Sea Wife; Seven Waves Away; Seven Were Saved; The Shallows (film) The Six (film) Stranded (2002 film) Strange Holiday (1970 film) Survival Island; Swiss Family Robinson (1940 film) Swiss Family Robinson (1960 film)
Fitzcarraldo (/fɪtskə'raldo/) is a 1982 West German epic adventure-drama film written, produced, and directed by Werner Herzog, and starring Klaus Kinski as would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman known in Peru as Fitzcarraldo, who is determined to transport a steamship over the Andes mountains to access a rich rubber territory in the Amazon basin.
Nearly 100 people watched the documentary, reacting in hushed voices to the crash that killed 72 people on Sept. 11, 1974. ... forward to seeing all five parts of a movie in one on Wednesday ...
The film stars Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Holliday Grainger, John Ortiz, and Eric Bana, and chronicles the historic 1952 United States Coast Guard rescue of the crew of SS Pendleton, after the ship split apart during a nor'easter off the New England coast. [10] [11] [12] The Finest Hours was released on January 29, 2016.
The ship lost cabin electrical power shortly after the initial impact. [41] "The [ship] started shaking. The noise—there was panic, like in a film, dishes crashing to the floor, people running, [and] falling down the stairs," reported a survivor. Those on board said the ship suddenly tilted to the port side. [15]
Indeed, the documentary is less about the 30 seconds that Packard was imprisoned in the humpback whale’s watery mouth and more about his life growing up in Provincetown where seasonal work ...