The Six

The Six (2021)

六人：泰坦尼克上的中国幸存者

The untold story of RMS Titanic's Chinese survivors.

The story of the six Chinese survivors of the Titanic disaster was written out of history. In The Six, we learn how these remarkable men beat the odds to make it off the ship alive, only to be singled out for expulsion from the US within 24 hours of their arrival. We track down their descendants for the first time. And we trace their extraordinary journey from Southern China to becoming silent witnesses to one of the twentieth century’s most infamous and intriguing events.

Date of release
2021-04-16
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Arthur Jones

Casting

Interesting facts

The Six is a 2021 documentary film directed by Arthur Jones and produced by Luo Tong. The film chronicles the previously untold story of the six Chinese survivors of RMS Titanic, as well as exploring the legacy of Chinese exclusion laws in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The film is executive produced by Titanic director James Cameron.

Production

The idea of making a film about Titanic's Chinese passengers was originally suggested to Jones by Steven Schwankert, a marine historian who had collaborated with him on the 2013 documentary The Poseidon Project. According to Schwankert, Jones was initially skeptical about covering a subject as well-documented as Titanic, but the question of how so little was known about the six Chinese, compared to the other survivors, stuck with them.

Early in production, the filmmakers found Tom Fong (方國民), who claimed that his father Wing Sun Fong (方榮山) was one of the Chinese passengers identified as "Lang Fang". Fong did not learn his father had been on Titanic until after Wing Sun Fong's death in 1985 and was able to verify the story with the help of the filmmakers.

The filmmaker's initial focus on Titanic shifted as their research uncovered more about what happened to the survivors in the years after 1912, with Jones noting the effect that their experiences still had on their families and communities over a century later. "Titanic was part of a much bigger story about race and immigration that is still playing out today," he told Variety.

The Six received international media attention in 2017, when a concept trailer went viral. The majority of filming would take place in 2018–2019, with James Cameron recording an interview and coming on board as executive producer later in production.

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