List of films about the RMS Titanic
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RMS Titanic has been featured in a large number of films and TV movies.
Poster | Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes |
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150px | 1912 | In Nacht und Eis | Mime Misu | Waldemar Hecker Otto Rippert Ernst Ruckert |
Film produced in Germany. It was thought lost until a collector discovered a copy in his collection in 1998. |
150px | 1912 | Saved from the Titanic | Étienne Arnaud | Dorothy Gibson | Starring Titanic survivor Dorothy Gibson. A lost film. |
1913 | Atlantis | August Blom | Karl Ludvig Schroder Axel Garde Gerhart Hauptmann |
Based on a love story in the Titanic. | |
1920 | Sex | Fred Niblo | Louise Glaum Irving Cummings |
Vamp Louise Glaum and company cross the Atlantic on a fictional ship called Gigantic. Britannic's alledged original name was to be Gigantic but ship in film probably meant to symbolize Titanic. | |
1929 | Atlantic | Ewald André Dupont | Franklin Dyall Madeleine Carroll |
Film was highly fictionalized. It was retitled Titanic: Disaster in the Atlantic in American home video releases. It nevertheless is the first sound film made about the disaster. | |
1943 | Titanic | Werner Klingler Herbert Selpin |
Sybille Schmitz Hans Nielsen |
A 1943 German Nazi propaganda film directed by Werner Von Klingler. The first film to use singularly the name Titanic. | |
1953 | Titanic | Jean Negulesco | Clifton Webb Barbara Stanwyck Robert Wagner Audrey Dalton Harper Carter Thelma Ritter Brian Aherne Richard Basehart |
American drama film. Its plot is centered around an estranged couple sailing on the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic | |
1958 | A Night to Remember | Roy Ward Baker | Kenneth More Ronald Allen Robert Ayres Honor Blackman |
Film based on the book by Walter Lord starring Kenneth More as the ship's Second Officer Charles Lightoller. Renowned for it's factual accuracy and documentary style[by whom?]. | |
1964 | The Unsinkable Molly Brown | Charles Walters | Debbie Reynolds Harve Presnell Ed Begley |
American musical film directed by Charles Walters. The screenplay by Helen Deutsch is based on the book of the 1960 musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown by Richard Morris. | |
1979 | S.O.S. Titanic | William Hale | David Janssen Cloris Leachman Susan Saint James David Warner Ian Holm |
Television movie that depicts the doomed 1912 voyage from the perspective of three distinct groups of passengers in First, Second, and Third Class, and respectively in an historically inaccurate fashion. | |
1980 | Raise The Titanic (film) | Jerry Jameson | Jason Robards Richard Jordan David Selby Anne Archer Alec Guinness |
The film was inspired by Clive Cussler's popular novel Raise the Titanic!. The film, however, was poorly received by critics and proved to be a box office bomb, losing most of its over $35m estimated budget. | |
1995 | Titanica: IMAX | IMAX documentary film about the Titanic narrated by Leonard Nimoy. | |||
1996 | Titanic | Robert Lieberman | Peter Gallagher George C. Scott Catherine Zeta-Jones Eva Marie Saint Tim Curry Harley Jane Kozak Marilu Henner |
Made-for-TV movie that premiered on CBS in 1996, with numerous inaccuracies and factual errors. | |
1996 | No Greater Love | Richard T. Heffron | Jaclyn Smith | Made-for-television romance movie in which a young woman takes charge of her young siblings, upon losing her fiance and parents in the disaster. Based on the Danielle Steel novel of the same name. | |
1997 | Titanic | James Cameron | Leonardo DiCaprio Kate Winslet Billy Zane Kathy Bates Frances Fisher Gloria Stuart Bernard Hill Victor Garber Danny Nucci Bill Paxton |
American romantic epic film. Best known film about Titanic disaster. The main characters and the central love story are fictional, but some characters (such as members of the ship's passengers and crew) are based on historical figures. At the time, the picture became the most expensive film ever made, costing approximately US$200 million with funding from Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox. | |
2000 | Britannic | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Edward Atterton Amanda Ryan Jacqueline Bisset Ben Daniels John Rhys-Davies Bruce Payne |
Based on the sinking of the HMHS Britannic, but features the Titanic sinking in a flashback. | |
2001 | Titanic: The Legend Goes On | Camillo Teti | Lisa Russo Mark Thompson-Ashworth Gisella Matthews Kenneth Belton Gregory Snegoff |
Italian animated film about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. | |
2003 | Ghosts of the Abyss | James Cameron | Bill Paxton James Cameron Dr. John Broadwater Dr. Lori Johnston |
3D IMAX documentary film released by Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media. | |
2010 | Titanic 2 | Shane Van Dyke | Bruce Davison Brooke Burns Shane Van Dyke Marie Westbrook |
Upcoming disaster film by The Asylum. The film takes place in 2012, 100 years since the sinking of the RMS Titanic. A new luxury cruise liner, the Titanic 2, has been christened, and is soon to embark on her maiden voyage, on the same route the Titanic took 100 years before. During the voyage, an iceberg comes onto her path and her crew must prevent her from suffering the same fate of her predecessor. |
The most widely viewed is the 1997 film Titanic, directed by James Cameron and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. After its release it became the highest-grossing film in history (it has since been superseded by Avatar), taking over $600 million in the U.S. and beating the 20-year record-holder Star Wars by $140 million.[1] The film grossed over $1.8 billion worldwide. It also won 11 Academy Awards, tying with Ben-Hur (1959) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) for the most awards won. The wide success of the film spurred additional interest in the Titanic story over a variety of media.