Les conteneurs et les cargos géants sont non seulement gourmands en fuel mais aussi les plus pollueurs. Aussi, pour lutter contre la pollution des mers et le réchauffement climatique, des ingénieurs conçoivent des prototypes de navires qui, de nouveau, utilisent la force du vent. L'armateur Andreas Lackner opère ainsi avec succès des transports transatlantiques avec son cargo à voiles Tres hombres. Mais l’avenir pourrait appartenir aux bâtiments hybrides, fonctionnant alternativement avec un moteur et le souffle d'Éole, comme l'Ecoliner sur lequel travaillent des ingénieurs hollandais ou le B9-ship en Grande-Bretagne. Des experts pensent qu’à l'horizon 2050 une grande partie de la flotte marchande pourrait hisser les voiles. Ce qui permettrait de réduire d‘un milliard de tonnes les rejets annuels de CO₂ et de faire de considérables économies de combustible.
C'est l'un des paquebots les plus mythiques et sans doute le plus beau transatlantique jamais construit en France. À la fois prouesse industrielle et ambassade flottante, le «Normandie» a marqué l'histoire maritime. Sa construction aux chantiers navals de Saint-Nazaire, semée d'embûches, est à l'origine de nombreuses innovations : les architectes et ingénieurs ont déployé des trésors d'inventivité pour bâtir une coque révolutionnaire, installer un système de propulsion turbo-électrique inédit et aménager de vastes intérieurs. À l'aide d'archives, d'animations 3D et d'intervenants passionnés par ce navire hors norme, ce documentaire revient sur l'épopée de ce géant des mers.
Relive the infamous 2012 shipwreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia and follow the engineering feat to raise her.
Dr. Bob Ballard explores the histories and the final resting places of famous 20th-century passenger liners, including the Titanic, the Lusitania, and the Empress of Ireland.
Working as a pageboy on an ocean liner, a street orphan and his friend Slugger end up on the wrong side of the ship's captain when they try to tell him that his wife is cheating on him with other members of the crew. The boys end up in deeper trouble, after they are thrown in the brig and the ship starts sinking...
Carly Simon and a 15-piece orchestra perform both original songs and classic standards on six-day voyage from New York City to Southampton, England onboard the most famous ocean liner in the world.
Celebrate engineering feats that conquered oceans with a look at historic liners—from the luxurious decks to the mechanisms that kept them afloat.
L'histoire du plus grand naufrage de tous les temps retracée à l'aide de films d'archives, de journaux intimes et d'entrevues avec des rescapés.
Through the Breakers, the 1928 Joseph C. Boyle silent South Seas tropical island seafaring romantic love triangle melodrama about a London socialite who loves a man who is assigned to be a plantation manager on a South Seas island. She agrees to join him after a year, but puts it off, but later winds up shipwrecked on the same island. An island girl there is in love with him, but when he refuses to reciprocate her love and returns to his old sweetheart, she chooses to commit suicide rather than marry one of her own kind.
Le journaliste Steve Haines est sur les traces d'un magnat des affaires . Il le suit sur un paquebot et se retrouve dans une croisière pleine d'intrigues, de romance et de meurtres.
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
This romantic comedy takes place on an ocean liner. One of the few unattached passengers is heiress Joan Foster. Joan finds herself in the arms of the ship's second officer. Little does she know that he has been hired by her father to keep other men away from her.
A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties his new position involves, not least the way he in which becomes the target for all the unattached women on board.
Angela, une jeune Américaine, se rend en Europe quand son bateau est coulé par les Allemands. Saine et sauve, elle parvient en France, mais la guerre fait rage dans le pays.
A thief fakes his death in order to steal a 10 million dollar Diamond from his former employer. He has the gem then he looses it and gets it back through various ploys around Europe
The story of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 after she was torpedoed off the Irish coast. The story is told from the perspective of Prof. Holbourn (a passenger), the German U-boat and its captain and crew, and other passengers, crew and Admiralty staff
An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Francisco, chief engineer Crusher McKay (Victor McLaglen) and shipboard doctor Tony Craig (Chester Morris) become rivals for the attention of nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Barrie). A Chinese stowaway, meanwhile, infects the stokehold with cholera and it is left to Crusher to keep the engines at full throttle until reaching harbor. But morale sinks to an all-time low when Crusher himself is stricken and the overworked men threaten with mutiny. Tony attempts to keep the stokers in check but the situation is growing more dangerous by the minute when a heroic Crusher rises from his sickbed. Leaving their previous petty squabbles behind, Tony and Crusher manage to guide the ship safely to harbor, where the doc and Ann rekindle their romance.
Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he foils two crooks trying to get their hands on her lucrative nickel mine.
An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.
Un riche homme d'affaires traque la fiancée d'un autre homme.