National Geographic - Titanic Collection (2012) Part 4 Last Hours of the Titanic

Commemorate a century of Titanic with this triple release from NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. It was mankind's largest and most magnificent machine - the Titanic, the gigantic ship that was supposed to transport people from Europe to the United States. Filled with dreams of the future and a strong belief that man could invent himself out of anything. Titanic was the ship that could not sink. Until the fateful night of April 15, 1912, when it hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank - leaving 1,495 people in the cold grave of the sea. On a mission funded by National Geographic, explorer-in-residence Dr. Robert Ballard researches the famed “unsinkable” Titanic. He reveals details of its discovery and provides answers to some its greatest mysteries in “Secrets of the Titanic” and “Titanic's Nuclear Secret”. This collector's set contains three fascinating documentaries and a short special featurette about the Titanic, the disaster and the amazing underwater operation that found the wreck at a depth of 3810 meters 73 years after the dramatic event.

Part 4 Last Hours of the Titanic

From the moment the iceberg was spotted, at 1140 P.M. on April 14, 1912, the Titanic's fate was sealed. Its 2,200 passengers and crew, in the course of two momentous hours, would meet their destiny in the icy, black waters of the North Atlantic. After years of painstaking research, Dr. Robert Ballard finally located the ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic, nearly two-and-one-half miles down the icy Atlantic. Here in this short documentary he covers Titanic's dramatic end and enduring legend, slow sinking into the ocean taking over three hours on a clear night and the people onboard who really made the story.

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