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Asia's Titanic

2009 • 0h46m Documentary, TV Movie

Rating

9.0/10

Popularity

4

The passenger ship Doña Paz collided with an oil tanker in the Philippines. 4,000 passengers died in the tragedy. Just five days before Christmas in 1987, the passenger ship Doña Paz collided with an oil tanker off Mindoro Island in the Philippines. 4,000 passengers died in the tragedy. It was the world's worst peacetime maritime disaster. Through dramatic first hand accounts from survivors and rescuers, transcripts from the Philippine congressional inquiry into the tragedy, archival footage and photos and a re-enactment of the collision, dissect the unfolding tragedy of Doña Paz.

Details

Director

Yam Laranas

Cast

Joonee Gamboa

Salvador Bacsal (Doña Paz survivor)

Aludía Bacsal (Doña Paz survivor)

Release date

8/25/2009

Status

Released

Origin country

US

Vote count

1