Ulisse - Il piacere della scoperta
Season 12 Episode 4 - La lunga notte del Titanic
It was April 14, 1912, when the Titanic, the largest passenger ship ever built by man, collided with an iceberg and sank, during its maiden voyage, on the route between Southampton and New York, causing the death of over fifteen hundred people including passengers and crew members. Alberto and Piero Angela dedicate a special episode of Ulisse, il piacere della scoperta, to the centenary of the greatest naval tragedy that has ever occurred. Through sophisticated virtual reconstruction techniques, videos, interviews and archive documents, father and son will delve inside the ocean liner, to try to find the possible clues that caused this catastrophe, beyond the collision with the iceberg, since from its construction in the Belfast shipyards, the materials used, the risky choices for navigation, such as that of equipping the ship with a lower number of lifeboats than there are passengers.
Episodes in Season 12
Le meraviglie della Roma cristiana
101 min
La conquista dei colori
101 min
Viaggio tra i segreti e i tesori di Ostia Antica
110 min
La lunga notte del Titanic
97 min
Oltre la Patagonia - Viaggio in capo al mondo (seconda versione)
97 min
Il lungo viaggio di Ramesse
94 min
Viaggio attraverso le Alpi
104 min
Città scomparse
104 min
Nemici invisibili
107 min
Il sorriso della Luna
116 min
Viaggio nella mente degli animali
121 min
Le meraviglie e i segreti di Parigi
127 min
L'amore al tempo di Nerone
129 min
La nascita di Atene
129 min
Le meraviglie della Rift Valley
131 min
I segreti della vittoria
129 min
I detective dell'antichità
132 min
Gli enigmi delle civiltà (seconda versione)
122 min
