THE TITANIC ship has been recreated in Belfast harbour through an epic drone display.
Almost 1,000 drones were used to stage the light display which formed the shape of the Belfast-made RMS Titanic this week.
Created on Monday, March 30, using 950 drones, the display was broadcast on BBC One and Two in Northern Ireland at 8pm this evening – the same time and date that the ill-fated liner set sail from Belfast in 1912.
The light 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.
Broadcast in December 2025, the series 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.
“We are so proud to have brought the Titanic back to Belfast in the shape of this extraordinary TV series,” Simon Young, Head of History, BBC Factual Commissioning, said today.
“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”.
He added: “We weren't just imagining the story, we were standing in it.”
The Titanic drone display is part of the BBC’s Made Of Here campaign which pays tribute to the “hometowns and cities across the UK which have inspired some of the BBC’s most iconic TV shows and characters”.