GONE: The Mystery of the Don Disaster

Great movie
This movie captures the emotions of the little Maine towns that lost so many citizens. I am from Maine, and hadn't heard the story, but found it fascinating. Well done.

So horrible
I don't know what that other reviewer saw, but this was just horrible. I'd rather watch monkeys fling poop at each other than this...which I'm sure the other reviewer has lots of.

Still an intruquing mystery... unsolved, after all these years.
Gone: The Mystery Of The Don Disaster is a video well worth owning.
You cannot sort this mystery out in one sitting.

The Don was a strange looking boat. She was a top-heavy forty four feet long with a nine-and-a-half foot beam. Atop this all was a pipe-framed steering station. Below decks, a large gasoline tank was mounted far forward in her wooden hull. Thirty four people (or was it 36?) were aboard for the Don's last trip. No one came home alive. No one knows why.

This documentary uses historic sources and well done reenacted scenes. The mood is of the early 1940s. The reenactments are gentle backdrops to the telling of the story. The movie was inspired by the research presented in the book Tragedy In Casco Bay by Stacy Welner

There is still a lot of mystery about the Don and its doom. No one knows for sure why she went down or where. This is a dramatic presentation of a classic sea tragedy. The captain who was under pressure running a party...

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