JAMES CAMERON'S EXPEDITION: BISMARCK

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• Release Year: 2002
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: Launched on May 18, 1941, the Nazi battleship Bismarck was the largest war vessel of its kind ever built. Wasting no time in making its mark on the Second World War, the Bismarck spent the first eight days of its existence cutting a swath of destruction and devastation throughout the North Atlantic, sending several Allied ships (and sailors) to the bottom of the sea. But on day nine -- May 27, 1941 -- the Bismarck itself was defeated and destroyed by the combined efforts of the British battleships Rodney and King George . When the smoke cleared, the Bismarck was sunk beneath the waves, carrying 2,106 German sailors with it. Produced and directed by James Cameron, the man who brought the movie megahit Titanic to life in 1997, the two-hour documentary Expedition: Bismarck uses state-of-the-art technology and filming equipment to offer viewers the first images of the Bismarck since its death 61 years earlier. This required Cameron and his hardy crew to risk their own lives by plunging some 16,000 feet into the icy North Atlantic, but the end results were well worth the danger involved.
• Cast: Lance Henriksen; James Cameron; Karl Kuhn; Heinz Steeg; Walter Weintz; Holger Herwig; Mike Cameron; Adrian Paul DeGroot; David J. Bercuson; Genya Chernaiev; Lori Johnston; Curt Lowens; Richard Doyle; Kai Wulff; Blake Sutton; Dean James; Chris Shafer; Lewis Abernathy; Winston Churchill; Adolf Hitler; David Lowe; Michael Maltzman; Anatoly M. Sagalevitch; Andy Bader; Bob Elkins; Fred Griffith; Kevin McDermott; Herbert Primig; Ty Sears; Steamer; Gary Johnstone
• Director: James Cameron
• Runtime: 1:33
• Company: Discovery Channel
• Media Format: Movie