This documentary tells the fate of the World War II heavy cruiser Indianapolis using first-person accounts from the last crew and their families. A devastating torpedo attack killed three-fourths of the crew, and survivors spend five days floating alone in the Pacific, before their miraculous rescue. Includes rare WWII footage, previously unpublished photographs, open-ocean reenactments and new footage from one of the last heavy cruisers of the...

In July 1945, a Japanese submarine sinks the USS Indianapolis. Indianapolis₂ final resting place remains a mystery for more than seven decades, until an expedition launched by philanthropist Paul G. Allen discovers the ship in August 2017. Now the story of USS Indianapolis is told as PBS reconstructs the ship's heroic legacy, its dramatic final moments, and the discovery of the wreck site.

Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, days after delivering the components of the atomic bomb from California to the Pacific Islands in the most highly classified naval mission of the war, the USS Indianapolis is sailing alone in the center of the Philippine Sea when she is struck by two Japanese torpedoes. The ship is instantly transformed into a fiery cauldron and sinks within minutes. Some 300 men go down with the ship. Nearly 900 make it into...