Ghosts at Sea: Paranormal Shipwrecks and Curses / 2014

Pirates and Sailors have fought many battles at sea but many who lost didn't go quietly into the murky depths. This killer collection of Ghostly Sea Hauntings will curl your toes and shiver your timbers with real ghost tales from the depths of the Paranormal.

Shipwreck: The Mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald / 1995

Chronicles the history of the legendary Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank in a violent storm with the loss of the entire crew in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975. In the summer of 1995, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society, National Geographic Society, Canadian Navy, and Sony Corporation descended to the site of the wreck, more than 500 feet below the surface of the lake. This documentary takes a look at their expedition.

A Shipwrecked Movie / 1984

At a New Year's Eve gathering at Pittsburgh Filmmmakers, guests attempt to persuade right-to-die advocate Elizabeth Bouvia (Constance Hanna) that life is worth living.

Great Shipwrecks of Truk Lagoon / 1991

Over sixty Japanese warships were sunk in Chuuk lagoon in a surprise raid by US carrier-based aircraft on 17 February, 1944. Now scattered across the lagoon bottom, the Fujikawa Maru, Shinkoku Maru, Aikoku, Betty Bomber, and others have become undersea islands of life. Home to beautiful creatures and corals, they remain littered with recognizable cargo and weapons.

Great Lakes Shipwreck Disasters / 2001

Several Great Lakes historians discuss the reasons why severe weather on the Great Lakes makes ships more vulnerable than on the ocean. Included are details of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, the Daniel T. Morrell in 1966, the Carl D. Bradley in 1958, the Noronic in 1949, G.P. Griffith in 1850, and the storm of 1913, which caused the loss of 40 ships and 235 people.

Shipwrecks of Lake Michigan / 2001

Stories of eight prominent Lake Michigan shipwrecks from 1912-1958; Rouse Simmons (1912), Eastland (1915), Lakeland (1924), Milwaukee (1929), S.S. Wisconsin (1929), Senator (1929), Prins Wilhelm V (1954), Carl D. Bradley (1958).

Shipwrecks of North America / 2009

Covers major shipwrecks in North America during the 20th century: the Titanic disaster in the Atlantic, the tragic sinking of the Andrea Doria, the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald and the fatal capsizing of the Eastland in the Chicago River, and the collision of the San Juan of the California coast. Includes expert interviews, actual footage and rare photographs.

Straits of Mackinac Shipwrecks / 2002

Straits of Mackinac shipwrecks presents the stories behind four fabled shipwrecks-- the Sandusky, the William H. Barnum, the Eber Ward, the Cedarville.

Colonel Heeza Liar Shipwrecked / 1916

Early animated short from Bray Studios.

Legendary Shipwrecks / 2018

Whatever the circumstances, the place where they happen or the toll, all shipwrecks are tragic. However, some, for many reasons, go down in history and become veritable legends. In April 1912, while on its maiden voyage, the RMS Titanic hits an iceberg. Two hours and forty minutes later, the biggest and most luxurious liner of its age sinks.

Shipwrecked / 1911

Annie Jackson, living with her uncle, Horace Gregory, an old fisherman on Val Dez Island, is injured by an automobile. John Kingdon, who happens by, takes her in his machine to the hospital. There he learns to love her, but his advances are not wanted by her uncle, for his choice for his niece's hand is John Runyon. So when Annie returns to her home, and is told to marry Runyon, she refuses. In the meantime, Kingdon leaves for Honolulu. The vessel is wrecked. Kingdon, cast into the sea, clings half exhausted to a spar. By a trick of Fate, the wreck occurs on the rocks of Val Dez Island, and Annie sees the spar, rows out and succeeds in dragging it to shore, where Kingdon is recognized. The young people declare their love for each other, but Runyon plans to get Kingdon out of his way. The "best laid plans of mice and men gang aft aglee," and so Kingdon escapes the trap laid for him, and taking Annie with him to the mainland, they get married.

Monster Shipwreck: Mystery of the Mars / 2019

It was a 16th century floating behemoth commissioned by Erik XIV of Sweden to help seize control of the profitable trade routes in the Baltic Sea. The legendary warship, Mars the Magnificent, met its match in what is considered history's first modern naval battle. After centuries of searching, a team of scientists and researchers have found the wooden ship 250 feet below the surface of the chilly Baltic waters, revealing the discovery of a lifetime.

Stephano: The True Story of Shakespeare's Shipwreck /

Pocahontas. Shakespeare. Squanto. "Stephano" follows the story of the only Mayflower passenger who had been to North America previously. A decade earlier, Stephen Hopkins had been aboard a Jamestown-bound ship that wrecked on Bermuda, inspiring Shakespeare's final play, The Tempest. Shot on location, the intrepid Hit and Run History crew retraces Hopkins’ life crisscrossing the Atlantic. Two-time Emmy-nominated producer and host Andrew Giles Buckley, a Hopkins descendant, grew up hearing stories that New Plymouth’s iconoclast tavern keeper may have the model of The Tempest’s drunken and mutinous Stephano. In their Gumshoe Historian style, Buckley and crew of Hit and Run History seek out the reality of a man who was everywhere at the founding of America.

Cornfield Shipwreck / 2019

Discovered by an unlikely team of amateur historians 45 feet beneath a Kansas cornfield, the Steamboat Arabia is one of the best-preserved shipwrecks in American history. The treasures contained within painting a vivid picture of western expansion and the treacherous frontier.

Under A Shipwrecked Moon / 2003

The power of a long-buried family secret becomes unleashed when the extreme rituals of a young punk rocker catapults his consciousness into the spirit realm in search of his Finnish father, a ship captain who drowned in the Bering Sea. His father's mother was a Sami sorceress whose shamanic powers were passed on to her grandson, powers tested as he enters the mythic dreams of his Finnish grandfather. A surrealistic fable of true love, giant hedgehogs, and the mystical depths of ancestral bonds.

The Pylos Shipwreck – Situated Testimony / 2023

On 14 June 2023, a boat carrying hundreds of migrants sank inside the Greek search and rescue zone in the Mediterranean Sea–the deadliest migrant shipwreck in recent history. Our digital reconstructions of the boat and mapping of its trajectory reveal inconsistencies in the Hellenic Coast Guard's (HCG) account and indicate that over 600 people drowned as the result of a failed towing by the HCG.

Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea: 28 October 2015 / 2020

On 28 October 2015, a migrant boat left the coast of Western Turkey heading to the closest European coast – the Greek island of Lesvos. The shipwreck resulted in the death of at least 43 people, making it the deadliest incident of that period, also known as “the long summer of migration.” One of the survivors, the artist Amel Alzakout, recorded the journey and the shipwreck on a waterproof camera attached to her wrist. This footage – which also forms the basis of her subsequent film Purple Sea – provides a unique situated perspective on this tragic event at the threshold of Europe.

Shipwrecked Among Cannibals / 1920

After opening scenes showing volcanoes of Java, an underground river, waterfalls, cloud effects, a coral island, the Ghost Rocks of Buru, and a tiger hunt in Siam, documentary footage of the cannibal tribes of New Guinea is framed by a fictional narrative in which the scientific expedition is shipwrecked along the southern New Guinea coast in the land of the Kia Kia headhunters, thus affording the crew the opportunity to film the tribal customs of these cannibals.

The Last Adventure Of the Gandul: Diary of a Shipwreck / 2016

Professor Bonehead Is Shipwrecked / 1916

Professor Bonehead gets shipwrecked, strands on a tropical island and meets cannibals.