Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Titanic is a four part serial created by BAFTA-winning producer Nigel Stafford-Clark (Warriors; The Way We Live Now; Bleak House) & written by Oscar & Emmy winner Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park; Downton Abbey) to mark the hundredth anniversary of the world&s most famous maritime disaster in April 1912 It sets out to tell the story not just of a single ship but of an entire society
- one that was heading towards its own nemesis in the shape of the First World War as carelessly as Titanic towards the iceberg This world soon to vanish forever is brought alive by a cast of over 80 featuring the cream of acting talent from Britain & beyond including Linus Roache (Law & Order; Batman Begins) Geraldine Somerville (Harry Potter; Cracker) Celia Imrie (Bridget Jones&s Diary; Kingdom) Toby Jones (My Week with Marilyn; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; Captain America) Maria Doyle Kennedy (The Tudors; The Commitments) Perdita Weeks (The Promise; The Tudors; Lost in Austen) Jenna-Louise Coleman (Waterloo Road; Emmerdale) Steven Waddington (Sleepy Hollow; Last of the Mohicans) Lyndsey Marshal (Hereafter; Being Human; Rome) Ruth Bradley (Primeval) Peter Mc Donald (The Damned United; City of Vice) & Timothy West (Bleak House; Ever After; The Day of the Jackal) amongst many others All human life is on Titanic as she sets out on her maiden voyage The upper-class family with their suffragette daughter & their warring servants; the wealthy elite of American society; the Irish lawyer in Second Class with his embittered wife; the young cabin steward & the impetuous Italian waiter who falls for her; the Catholic engineer fleeing Belfast with his wife & family to escape the sectarian conflict; the mysterious stranger in Steerage fleeing who knows what & then there are the officers & crew As their stories interweave & we find our first impressions are often undermined by what we learn there is one thing that we know for certain & they do not
- that not all of them will survive Actors Linus Roache Geraldine Somerville Celia Imrie Toby Jones Maria Doyle Kennedy Perdita Weeks Jenna-Louise Coleman Steven Waddington Lyndsey Marshal Ruth Bradley Peter Mc Donald & Timothy West Certificate 12 years & over Year 2012 Languages English Duration 3 hours & 4 minutes (approx)