Rent The Liners: Endless Voyage (1997)
0h 55min
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- Synopsis:
Ocean liners were far more than simply giant ships that carried passengers across the seas. They were bold statements of national power and technological might; pawns in a giant, volatile game of one-upmanship between rival nations. Like rocket ships in the space race of the 1970s, liners were the symbols of ultimate power in the early struggle between the superpowers for dominance of the world. The Liners is a unique and exciting four-part series that will take the viewer on a remarkable voyage; from the earliest days of the first superliner, through their use in times of war as well as peace, into the present day and beyond. 'Endless Voyage' tells the captivating story of the necessary evolution that took place between the end of the war and present day. The 'jet age' had forced liners into the most dramatic struggle of their long and illustrious history and by the 1960's 95% of Transatlantic crossings were made by jet. The liners reacted in the only way they could, they found a way to embrace the jet age and worked together with the jets in focusing their attention on the cruise holiday market: the jets would fly the passengers to Miami and the ships would take care of the rest. Cruise holidays were now a global enterprise and new, huge and decadently luxurious liners were being launched. Where speed used to be the liners' main criteria, it is now size and luxury which ticks the necessary boxes, illustrated perfectly by the mighty QE2 and the "floating city", Carnival Destiny, which has helped to usher in a new era for the liners. With a combination of superb archive footage, expert commentary and fascinating interviews this video is much more than simply a story about big, beautiful ships. It is a saga of the volatile changing world of the last 150 years, a world in which these giant transoceanic people movers became the conduit for enormous technological, social and political change. - Directors:
- Peter Butt
- Producers:
- Rob McAuley
- Narrated By:
- Sandy McCutcheon
- Writers:
- Peter Butt
- Studio:
- Demand DVD
- Genres:
- TV Documentaries
- Countries:
- Australia
