Asia's Titanic (2009)

90% User Rating

46min

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.

Yam LaranasDirector

Cast

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Joonee Gamboa

Narrator

Salvador Bacsal (Doña Paz survivor)

Salvador - self

Aludía Bacsal (Doña Paz survivor)

Aludía - self

Luthgardo Niedo (Dona Paz survivor)

Luthgardo - self

Pedro Sorema (Dona Paz survivor)

Sorema - self

Morris Apura (Doña Paz survivor)

Apura - self

Almario Balanay (Dona Paz survivor)

Balanay - self

Generoso Batola (Doña Paz survivor)

Batola - self

Arthur Lim (Counsel of Sulpicio Lines)

Lim - self - archived footage

Jose Sison (Counsel for Caltex on MT Vector)

Sison - self - archived footage

CMDE Benjamin Mata (Marine Safety Expert)

Mata - self

CMDE Cipriano Luspo (Coast Guard)

Luspo - self - archived footage

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TheRethinkerCurator

Rating 90%

June 15, 2024

Great Documentary. However, I can’t help but feel that this is one of the most horrific, devastating, and tragic of peacetime maritime tragedies to have occurred surpassing the RMS TITANIC. The MV DONA PAZ tragedy had taken the lives along with those of the oil tanker MT Vector: 4,386 dead, and 27 survived. I won’t ever forget that night recorded: December 20, 1987. RIP.