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Nat Geo Acquires BBC Docu-Drama 'Titanic Sinks Tonight' Recreating Final Hours of the Disaster

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Max Goldbart

3d ago· 3 min readenNews

Summary

National Geographic has acquired the BBC's docu-drama 'Titanic Sinks Tonight,' which uses virtual production technology to recreate the final hours of the Titanic disaster in real time. The show combines dramatic reenactments with Northern Irish actors and documentary testimony to piece together events from the moment the ship hit the iceberg to its sinking beneath the waves on April 14, 1912, covering the fate of the 2,208 passengers and crew.

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Titanic Sinks Tonight tells the story of the final hours of the most famous sea disaster of all time.
From the crucial seconds before the ship hit the iceberg, to the final moments when the hull sank beneath the waves, the show uses virtual production technology to piece together the events, in real time, to reveal exactly what happened to the 2,208 passengers and crew on the night of April 14, 1912.
It recreates dramatic elements using actors from Northern Ireland and combines this with documentary testimony.
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Nat Geo will air the 'Titanic Sinks Tonight' documentary from the BBC and Sony, recreating the final hours of the ship disaster.

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