La noche del 14 de Abril de 1912 a las 11:39, el Titanic, un enorme y lujoso transatlántico choca con un iceberg en su viaje inaugural, hecho que dio lugar a una de las grandes tragedias de nuestro tiempo. Pasajeros de la alta sociedad, empresarios y veteranos marineros pudieron comprobar que ningún barco es invencible frente al mar.

Queen Mary, Normandie, Mauretania: These great ocean liners of the Atlantic were the largest and most opulent passenger ships ever built. It was as if the finest hotels and most magnificent estates of the Western World had been put to sea. Tour their elite staterooms and swimming pools, and the below-deck immigrant quarters. Hear the real stories of the people who built and boarded them. Visit their renowned ports of call. Follow the great ships as they are drafted into combat, and witness the haunting tragedies that led the Lusitania, Titanic, and Andrea Doria to their doom.

Since their development in the 1850s, ocean liners have been far more than simply passenger ships - they were also the conduit for enormous technological, social and global cultural change. This four-part series is an international story told from a uniquely Australian point of view about the most romantic ships ever built.