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Best ocean liner documentary ever.
This four tape set, one of the few of it's kind, goes into great depth about the famous ocean liners of the past. Fittingly, it opens onboard the last North Atlantic liner left in service, Cunard's QE2. From there, the story travels back some 150 years. It covers all the major passenger ships that played such an important role in developing new countries, and tells their life stories. Some had truly remarkable lives, and established records in terms of speed, service, and luxury that have never been equalled. For example, Cunard's "Mauretania" was the fastest ship on the seas for an incredible 22 years. This same companys "Aquitania" was the only major liner to serve in both World Wars, and she steamed continuously for 36 years, the longest serving vessel of such size to this day. However, it is the illustrations seen in this film that will impress the viewer the most. Some of the most stunning rooms ever built on a ship, could be found on these early 20th century ocean liners, and rare photographs are used to bring them back to life. Nothing like them has ever been seen since. The craftsmanship of this time was unbelieveable, and would be far to expensive to recreate today. But, as is pointed out in the film, these ships were icons of their time, and people trying to recapture that era by going to sea on a cruise ship today will be sadly disappointed. There can be no comparision between a Carnival Cruise ship of today, and one of White Star's or Cunard's early giants. Cruise ship company's will readily tell you that those historic ships cannot be matched.
The role played by these early vessels during wartime is also included. There efforts as troopships were hazardous and heroic at the same time, and they changed the course of two World Wars. The major disasters that befell some of these ships are also fully covered, so Titanic, and Lusitania fans won't be disapppointed. This documentary is told by some of the worlds most knowledgable authorities in this field, and despite it's four hour length, it never drags or fails to hold ones attention. If your looking for a nostalgic ocean voyage down memory lane aboard one of those great "Floating Palaces" of the past, or the lone one of today, this video set will certainly be your best choice, and possibly your only one.

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Floating Palaces: From The Savannah to the QE2
The movie floating palaces was an interesting documentary of ocean liners past. It went in depth to Brunel's mammoth ships, Cunard's scheduled service, steerage, Cunard's Grand Trio, WWI and WWII, and the Andrea Doria. From this video series, I learned alot, like the fact the Great Britan still survives. I think you will enjoy this video.