Sea Trial (1983)

Filmed aboard warships of the U.S. Navy's Atlantic Fleet, in offices and hearing rooms of the U.S. Senate, and at 22 other locations along the Eastern seaboard, from Maine to Mayport, Florida, the program explores the integrated and critical national defense roles of the U.S. Navy, American Merchant Marine, and the nation's shipbuilding industry. Features former Chiefs of Naval Operations, senators and cabinet members, scholars and faculty members of the American Enterprise Institute and Brookings Institution, and CIA Director, R. James Woolsey. Host is actor Robert Lansing. Aired nationally and exhibited in several strategic public-policy events and U.S. congressional hearings, the film is dedicated to the officers and crew of the American merchant vessel, S.S. Marine Electric, who appear in the film and were subsequently lost at sea when their ship sunk in a winter blizzard off the coast of Virginia.