Titanic: The Digital Resurrection

This was marketed as a breakthrough documentary, but if you've watched Titanic documentaries nothing much will be new here. We do however get beautiful renderings of the ship taken from underwater scans which really help to understand the wreck.

I would have liked a bit more detail about how the ship was scanned, how the huge debris field was investigated, and how the pictures were pieced together. Along with how the iceberg simulations were made (like, how do they know the shape of the iceberg?)

Still, it's entertaining enough and at 70 minutes long it was about the right length for the material presented.

Most of what's here has been done before and better. The scans are impressive but most are a bit dark so it's hard to discern a lot of detail. Overall it's a great effort to show the entire wreck but it's nothing that hasn't been done already in other better done documentaries.

The biggest problem I had with it was the leaps they take with the facts. They present a simulation of the ship hitting the iceberg and the exact damage it did to the hull as if it's a forgone conclusion when in fact it's anything but. They are making educated guesses but in truth there's no way they can know exactly what the damage is because that part of the hull is buried in the ocean floor. They present their theory as fact when it's really just supposition. Struck me as very disingenuous.

They so this numerous times throughout the documentary and after a while it gets old. In truth they have no way of actually knowing what actually happened and are making some very large assumptions based on what's left of the ship. That's what I found most disappointing here. To the point that I almost stopped watching several times.

If you're even just an armchair expert regarding the Titanic sinking this documentary isn't going to show you anything new and the opining of the three hosts will probably begin to sound hollow to you very quickly. Still, the digital reconstruction is impressive if also very grim when you see how far the wreck has deteriorated since it was first discovered back in the 1980's. I suppose it's worth watching for that at least.

As stated in other reviews, the scans are good. But thats about it. The experts reactions to things are cringey and fairly overly dramatic for facts that are not really groundbreaking.

What I found most annoying was the increduality of the so called "experts" over very normal facts that anyone is aware of.

I did find the ship break quite interesting however. I dnt think people were realistically 'trapped' in there....just my opinion...but thought that was a far fetched idea.

Give it a miss.....unless you have it on for background noise. Youtube has far better content, suprisingly enough....

First off the Magellan scans are amazing, and Parks Stephenson is a great guy, but this documentary was disappointing, but I expected it to be. It's another generic format documentary that came across as cold and insincere. Much of the content was filler as expected, and the shots they show of the digital scans are heavily darkened with shadows so a lot of details are lost. This is merely casual viewing for someone flicking through Netflix/Disney, not your well versed Titanic enthusiast, fortunately there is a lot better content on Youtube these days with various creators genuinely passionate about Titanic that go into a lot more detail. I suppose 'The Digital Resurrection' is still worth a watch but it's a reminder to me how lazy documentaries have become, a lot more effort was put into Titanic documentaries decades ago and when you see the likes of this one it shows.

Of course I had to watch the 2025 documentary "Titanic: The Digital Resurrection", as I had the opportunity to do so.

I was rather impressed with the replica that they were capable of making from the data that the two submersibles, named Romeo and Juliet, gathered. It was really impressive and just put a lot of things into perspective. I have to say that it was awe-inspiring.

The documentary does also shed some light on some aspects of the sinking that I had never heard about before.

All in all, this 2025 documentary is definitely well-worth checking out, provided you have an interest in the Titanic or the tragic events of April 14th, 1912.

My rating of director Fergus Colville's 2025 documentary "Titanic: The Digital Resurrection" lands on a six out of ten stars.