Mysteries from the Grave: Titanic (2022 TV Movie) User Reviews

Better than some, so give it a chance.

[ksdilauri · 6/10 · 17 February 2023]

Of the bazillion different "Titanic" documentaries, this is not in the upper echelon--but it has good points. There are the usual appearances by family members of passengers, vintage newsreel footage, photos of the ship's interior and so forth.

It would have benefited more if, regarding a couple of its very young commentators, there were some kind of evidence that they have any real-world qualifications regarding Titanic history--one gets the impression that they just looked up "Titanic" info online after school. Others--including the passenger descendants--come across as more credible, with actual experience in documenting Titanic's history.

Still, it's decently written and put together.

The graphics are good, narration is clear and well-written, and there's more than the usual superficial mention of the coal fire that burned for a couple of days below decks. There are a number of interesting background facts regarding some passengers of note that are rarely mentioned in other documentaries. Overall, it's better than many such efforts. Give it a watch.

A disappointment - save yourself the trouble...

[vampirejesus · 1/10 · 20 December 2022]

A promising video that quickly degenerated into a preachy propaganda piece regarding race and other nonsense unrelated to the tragedy. The "experts" remarks are poorly scripted and betray.their only generalized knowledge of the "Olympic" class vessels of the White Star Line. The stock footage is also inaccurate, with many shots of the Olympic being passed off as the Titanic. It then goes on to state that the ship had 'design flaws' when viewed from the hindsight of today, when the ship was actually an overbuilt state of the art vessel in 1912. Then Edward Smith is depicted as a reckless Captain who 'ignored' ice warnings and steamed on full speed ahead. What they fail to relate is that ALL ships at the time kept as sharp a lookout as they could, and usually moved through ice fields at full speed. Smith was in fact aware of the ice warnings and altered Titanic's course further south, which in fact doomed the ship as the new course led directly to the iceberg.

Sensationalist rubbish; Don't bother watching it!

[ctitan-11253 · 1/10 · 5 February 2023]

As mentioned by the previous reviewer 'vampirejesus'; So called experts and various distant relatives of those on board give their opinions on what happened and how their relatives behaved etc. The continuous replays of computer generated scenes became somewhat tedious to the point of becoming totally irrelevent. The mention of a possible coal bunker fire, which whilst being quite relevent, came up as only speculation with no real proof being provided.

But what really irritated me was the machine-gun type commentary of an 'expert' by the name of Kaylee Jukich-Fish (sp) whose appallingly rapid speech became so irritating after a while that every time she came on I hit the mute button!!

A serious documentary? Definitely NOT! Infotainment only, and then at the lowest level possible.

Sink

[BandSAboutMovies · 4/10 · 31 December 2023]

The voyage of the RMS Titanic only lasted five days and over a century later interest in the disaster still exists. This documentary takes viewers into the depths of the ocean and shows what happened to the 1,500 people who died in the ship that was said to be unsinkable.

They found descendants of passengers to be in this and also people who are still blaming Captain Edward Smith 110 years later. In the same way I debate Italian movies, I bet there are people obsessed with the Titanic that are screaming during this.

I once had to do ads for a charity that was a married couple who built their entire house to look like the dining hall of the Titanic and would have charity events that served the last meal on the ship. Every idea we showed them, they grew upset and said, "Why are you making the Titanic into a joke?" I'm not the one that lived in the Titanic 24/7 so maybe I wasn't so understanding. I also worked on a Titanic sequel in Pittsburgh that had the sinking filmed in a wave pool and I was told that their CGI was going to make it look great. My response? "Is your CGI better than James Cameron?"