Colourful drone display in Belfast Harbour recreates RMS Titanic
A new campaign celebrating BBC programming made in Northern Ireland recreated the RMS Titanic over Belfast harbour, with a colourful ‘flotilla’ of almost 1,000 drones.
The drone display, which took place on Monday 30 March using 950 drones, will be broadcast to audiences as part of a Made Of Here film on BBC One Northern Ireland and BBC Two Northern Ireland on Thursday 2 April at 8pm, after EastEnders – the same time and date the Titanic set sail from Belfast in 1912.
The display was inspired by the four-part BBC factual series Titanic Sinks Tonight, which was filmed and produced in Northern Ireland by Belfast-based independent production company Stellify Media.
Titanic Sinks Tonight, which originally aired in December 2025, has become the BBC’s biggest history documentary of 2025/26 so far, with an audience of more than two million viewers across the UK and almost half of viewers watching on BBC iPlayer.
The docu-drama used personal testimony taken from letters, interviews, personal memoirs and the accounts of public enquiries to tell the story of the sinking of the Titanic, minute by minute, from the moment it hit the iceberg to the moment it disappeared below the surface of the ocean.
Simon Young, Head of History, BBC Factual Commissioning, said: “We are so proud to have brought the Titanic back to Belfast in the shape of this extraordinary TV series. The city took the production of Titanic Sinks Tonight to its heart, and the result is a gripping second-by-second examination of the ship's final hours.
"There's no better way to mark the construction of the most famous ship in history, and the creation of this epic series, than by bringing Titanic to life in lights on Belfast harbour."
Keiran Doherty, co-CEO of Stellify Media who made the Titanic Sinks Tonight series, said: “Filming at home in Belfast gave us something special, a connection to the Titanic that goes beyond the visuals. We weren't just imagining the story, we were standing in it.”
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