Children on the Titanic

Britain’s Got Talent discovery Hollie Steel stars in the first TV program ever made about the children and teenage crew members who sailed on the stricken liner.

Hollie plays a 14-year-old English girl emigrating to Canada with her parents.

Director Keith Wootton explains, “We look at what it was like for a child to be told the family was moving to the New World. The planning and goodbyes before the excitement of boarding the incredible Titanic. Children’s accounts of their feelings before and after the disaster are an important part of our story.”

The seven musical numbers in Children on the Titanic include two songs specially written for Hollie Steel, Women and Children First and The Melting Pot of Europe. In the final minutes of the film, Hollie sings Nearer My God to Thee‘, believed to be the final hymn played by the Titanic Orchestra before the ship went down.

The story begins at Christmas 1912 with the girl played by Hollie Steel looking back at a year she’ll never forget. There are true-to-life accounts from children who survived and theories about teenage crew members from Titanic historians.