Titanic's glamour hid a revolution—this doc spills the tea on floating palaces that changed everything.
Season 1 • Episode 4
LatestThe final episode tells of the post-Boeing years, when the liners were running half-empty and all seemed doomed to the breaker's yard. Then came the age of the cruise -- and companies like Disney and Royal Caribbean now vie to outdo each other with ever larger and more luxurious floating cities.
Since their development in the 1850s, ocean liners have been far more than simply passenger ships - they were also the conduit for enormous technological, social and global cultural change. This four-part series is an international story told from a uniquely Australian point of view about the most romantic ships ever built.
Production
Staggering archival footage of floating cities.
Writing
Narration treats class divides with sharp wit.
Direction
Butt finds Australia's hidden liner obsession.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Peter Butt later uncovered that Australia's 'Titanic of the South,' the SS Wollongbar II, was deliberately forgotten by officials due to wartime embarrassment.
The series barely mentions Titanic—deliberately. Butt argued that ship had 'hijacked' liner history, overshadowing thousands of other vessels that shaped global migration patterns.
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