What is Titanic in Colour?
Titanic in Colour is a new two-part history documentary series that brings the doomed voyage of the Titanic to life. Historic footage of the real-life Titanic has been colourised using new techniques, showing the lavish interiors of the ship, clothing and artefacts belonging to the passengers and the people who built and travelled on the ship. There are also exclusive interviews with living relatives of the passengers and crew. Titanic in Colour will tell stories including the long-lasting psychological trauma of those who survived the sinking, and how Southampton, where the ship sailed from, became a ‘city of widows’ because of the impact of the sinking.
When is Titanic in Colour on TV?
The first episode of Titanic in Colour will be broadcast on Channel 4 at 8pm on Sunday 4 August 2024. It will focus on how the Titanic was built in Belfast and the build-up to her maiden voyage.
What was the Titanic?
RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner, built for the White Star Line by Harland and Wolff in Belfast. At the time, the ship was the largest ship afloat and was considered to be ‘unsinkable’. She set sail from Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York on 10 April 1912, but sunk in the Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after hitting an iceberg. Although some passengers and crew escaped via lifeboats, of the estimated 2,224 people aboard, 1,496 died, making the incident the deadliest sinking of a single ship at the time. Death rates were particularly high among the poorer Third Class and Second Class passengers.