Before the days of jet travel, magnificent ocean liners such as the Queen Mary and the Normandie reigned over the Atlantic, setting standards of taste, luxury, and efficiency. They transported not only the rich and famous, but also soldiers during wartime, and emigrants seeking new lives in the land of opportunity. THE SUPERLINERS: TWILIGHT OF AN ERA invites you to experience life aboard the last of the North Atlantic liners, the Queen Elizabeth 2, in a nostalgic look at the great vessels of a time gone by.
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Luxury was defined in the early part of the 20th century by superliners. Now they are all but extinct. The Superliners takes viewers on a five-day journey aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2, the last superliner ever built. With 110,000 horsepower and 67,000 tons in mass, the QE2, launched in 1967, is just one of about a dozen such ships that existed as the largest moving manmade objects. Its 296th voyage westbound from Southampton to New York serves as a time capsule of a bygone era of travel and opulence. The United States, France's Normandy, and England's Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth are all explored in this 59-minute documentary. Significant for their engineering and nautical ingenuity as well as for their transport of tourists, immigrants, and soldiers, liners were made obsolete by air travel, popularized during the mid-1960s. While this video could have been more provocative, the interviews with crew members and passengers make for a nostalgic portrait of life aboard a liner on the high seas. --Cristina Del Sesto
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