The BBC has announced Titanic Sinks Tonight — a four-part dramatised documentary
This four part series produced by Stellify Media for BBC Factual and BBC Northern Ireland, relives the Titanic story through the experiences and personal testimony of the passengers and crew who were there. The series was filmed in Northern Ireland using cutting-edge Virtual Production technology.
What exactly is Titanic Sinks Tonight, and what makes it different?
It’s been over a century sink the ship sailed and sank, and many films and documentaries have been spawned. From the announcement, we learn the series pieces together the events, minute by minute, to reveal exactly what happened to the 2,208 passengers and crew on the night of April 14, 1912. Unearthed from a vast archive of eyewitness testimony, including letters, telegrams, media interviews, memoirs and the US and UK public enquiries into the disaster, the cast of actors portray vivid first-hand accounts that will put viewers ‘in the moment’, revealing what individuals all around the ship saw, felt and did that night.
There is also analysis from a range of contributors including ex-marine JJ Chalmers, historian Professor Suzannah Lipscomb, Admiral Lord West, and authors Nadifa Mohamed and Jeanette Winterson.
The BBC announcement also has a range of first look images, such as this behind the scenes shot:
The cast includes Rhys Mannion as First Class passenger Jack Thayer and Vicky Allen as First Class stewardess Violet Jessop. Further cast includes Tyger Drew-Honey (as Harold Bride), Charlotte McCurry (Eleanor Cassebeer), Patrick Buchanan (Bruce Ismay), Adam Rhys-Charles (as Charles Lightoller), Lisa Dwyer-Hogg (Charlotte Collyer), Hannah Wengård (Anna Sjoblom), Ethan McHale (Joseph Boxhall), Candida Gubbins (Lucy Duff Gordon), Steffan Boje (Cosmo Duff Gordon), Andrew Doherty (Eugene Daly) Charlotte Lavery (Marjorie Collyer), Sara Diab (Celiney Yazbeck), Oisin Thompson (Officer Lowe), Dino Luca (Thomas Dillon), Ciaran McCourt (Fred Barrett), Gerry O’Brien (Captain Smith), Parnell Scott (Jack Phillips), Michael Johnston (Harvey Collyer), Matthew Cassidy (Fred Fleet), Jonny Everett (Thomas Andrews), Killian Filan (Daniel Buckley), Forrest Bothwell (Herbert Stone) and Ian Davidson (Harold Cottam).