- After his disappearance on May 29, 1914, the Empress of Ireland still arouses passionate curiosity of crowds. Shipwreck disaster (there are more than twelve thousand victims), this documentary reconstructs the investigative stages of drama and addresses a number of issues. Why for example, have sailed with a ship whose rudder was defective? Why watertight doors were not closed at the time of the collision, which resulted in a rapid sinking? And the inquiry has withheld nothing? Why a key witness is found dead and his testimony was never retained by the same commission of inquiry? Thanks to recent investigations, expert witnesses and numerous reconstructions, the investigative documentary sheds new light on one of the biggest news story of the twentieth century and has become a final sum on the subject.—Stephan Parent
- Empress of Ireland, a new film telling the exciting and emotional story of the tragic events that led to the sinking of the ''Ocean Liner'' of the Canadian Pacific, the Empress of Ireland, in the night of May 28th 1914, killing 1012 victims in the Saint-Laurent River.
- When the luxury ocean liner Empress of Ireland collided with the Norwegian coal vessel Storstad on May 29, 1914, it took a mere 14 minutes for the ship to disappear beneath the sea, killing 1,012 of the 1,477 people aboard. Filmmaker Stephan Parent decides to make a film on the Shipwreck Empress of Ireland and assembles a diverse collection of experts to support him. Using archival photos, underwater photography from the actual expedition last year, animation and re-creations to produce this fascinating doc-drama, which chronicles the story behind Canada's worst nautical disaster of all time, but the expedition does not go well and the film that Parent ends up with is not the one he intended. Things get very edgy when the film crew starts seeing shapes in the murky water.The footage was compiled and made into a movie.
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