List of films about the RMS Titanic

RMS Titanic has been featured in numerous films, TV movies and notable TV episodes. The 1997 film Titanic was one of highest grossing films.^[1][2][3] On television, the Titanic has been featured in genres ranging from epic dramas to short cartoon parodies.

Theatrically released cinema dramas and documentaries

Year	Title	Director	Cast	Notes
1912	Saved From The Titanic	Étienne Arnaud	Dorothy Gibson Alec B. Francis	Co-written and starring Titanic survivor Dorothy Gibson and released only 29 days after the sinking. Now a lost film following a studio fire in which the last known prints were destroyed.
1912	La hantise[4]	Louis Feuillade	Renée Carl René Navarre	("The Haunting") French silent film
1912	In Nacht und Eis	Mime Misu	Waldemar Hecker Otto Rippert Ernst Rückert	("In Night and Ice"), also called Der Untergang der Titanic ("The Sinking of the Titanic"). Silent film produced in Germany; believed to be lost until a collector discovered in 1998 that he had a copy.
1929	Atlantic / Atlantik	Ewald André Dupont	Franklin Dyall Madeleine Carroll	A highly fictionalized account, retitled Titanic: Disaster in the Atlantic in American home video releases. This is the first sound film made about the disaster, and was a pioneering sound-on-film release, being produced in three languages: English, German, and French (and silent versions). The German version was the first full-length German sound film and was a major hit there.
1943	Titanic	Werner Klingler Herbert Selpin	Sybille Schmitz Hans Nielsen	A 1943 German Nazi propaganda film (personally overseen by Joseph Goebbels)[5] casting a fictitious German First Officer on the Titanic as the hero and the British as villains. The first film to use singularly the name Titanic and intermix fictional subplots and characters with historical persons on board the ship. Filmed on board the German liner SS Cap Arcona which was later mistakenly[6] sunk by the RAF with civilian loss of life greatly exceeding that of the Titanic.[7]
1953	Titanic	Jean Negulesco	Clifton Webb Barbara Stanwyck Robert Wagner Audrey Dalton	American dramatic film centered on 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	British docudrama based on the book by Walter Lord starring Kenneth More as the ship's Second Officer Charles Lightoller. Regarded as one of the most historically accurate Titanic disaster films, with the exception of not featuring the ship breaking in half. (There was still doubt about the fact she split in two when the book and film were produced.) [8] Some effects scenes were 'borrowed' from the 1943 German film.[9]
1964	The Unsinkable Molly Brown	Charles Walters	Debbie Reynolds Harve Presnell Ed Begley	American musical film about the life of Molly Brown, which culminates in her voyage aboard the Titanic. The screenplay by Helen Deutsch is based on the Richard Morris book of the 1960 musical.
1980	Raise the Titanic	Jerry Jameson	Jason Robards Richard Jordan David Selby Anne Archer Alec Guinness	Although adapted from Clive Cussler's popular novel Raise the Titanic!, this movie was poorly received by critics and proved to be a box office bomb, failing to recover its $40 million budget.[10]
1995	Titanica[11]	Stephen Low	Leonard Nimoy	95-minute IMAX documentary film about the Titanic narrated by Leonard Nimoy. Two survivors are featured: Frank Goldsmith's recollections (1977 clip), and Eva Hart is interviewed.
1997	Titanic	James Cameron	Leonardo DiCaprio Kate Winslet Billy Zane Kathy Bates Frances Fisher Gloria Stuart	This American romantic epic film is the best known film about the Titanic disaster. The main characters are fictional, but some portrayals of the ship's passengers and crew are based on historical figures. The film became one of the most expensive films ever made, costing approximately US$200 million, and also topped the list of highest-grossing films for twelve years. The film won 11 Academy Awards,[2] including Best Picture and Best Director.[3] Re-released in 2012 in formats which include IMAX 3D; often billed as Titanic in 3D.
1997	The Chambermaid (on the Titanic)	Bigas Luna	Aitana Sánchez-Gijón Olivier Martínez Romane Bohringer	French-Spanish-Italian romantic film about a stevedore who falls in love with one of the Titanic's chambermaids. From the French novel by Didier Decoin La femme de chambre du Titanic (also original title of film).
1999	The Legend of The Titanic	Kim J. Ok Orlando Corradi	Jane Alexander Sean Patrick Lovett Francis Pardeilhan Gregory Snegoff	Italian animated fantasy tale about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. This family-friendly retelling of the most notable maritime disaster of all time spawned a rival and a sequel (see below).
2000	Titanic: The Legend Goes On	Camillo Teti, Kim Lox	Lisa Russo M. Thompson-Ashworth Gisella Matthews Kenneth Belton Gregory Snegoff	A Spanish-Italian animated film about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Also released as Titanic: The Animated Movie.[12]
2003	Ghosts of the Abyss	James Cameron	Bill Paxton James Cameron Dr. John Broadwater Dr. Lori Johnston	3-D IMAX documentary film released by Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media. Features deep-sea exploration of the wreckage.
2004	In Search of The Titanic[13]	Kim J. Ok	Jane Alexander Rodolfo Bianchi Fabio Boccanera	A sequel to the Italian animated film The Legend of the Titanic. Also known as Tentacolino (Italian).
2010	Titanic II	Shane Van Dyke	Bruce Davison Brooke Burns Shane Van Dyke Marie Westbrook	Set in 2012, 100 years since the sinking of the RMS Titanic, a new luxury liner, the Titanic II, embarks on her maiden voyage, and is threatened by the same fate as her namesake.
2012	The Last Signals'[14]	Thomas Lynskey	Jacob Swing Thomas Lynskey Robert Bagdon	Independent short film (42 min). Depiction of Titanic's assistant telegraph operator Harold Bride's story.

Television movies and notable episodes

Year	Title	Director	Cast	Notes
1956	"A Night to Remember" Kraft Television Theatre	George Roy Hill	Bradford Dillman Neil North	Live TV adaptation of Walter Lord's 1955 book of the same name; narrated by Claude Rains. The movie did so well in the ratings that it was rebroadcast the following week.
1957	"The Unsinkable Molly Brown" Telephone Time	Erle C. Kenton	Cloris Leachman	Short segment (using stock footage from the German film of 1943) from the TV version of John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series. Leachman would again play the role of Molly Brown in S.O.S. Titanic (1979).
1959	"Night of April 14th" Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond	John Newland	Patrick Macnee Barbara Lord Isobel Elsom	A young Englishwoman, Grace Montgomery, is tormented by nightmares about drowning in the ocean. Her fiancé, Eric Farley, surprises her the next day by telling her that they are to travel to New York City aboard the Titanic. Others also experience premonitions about the disaster. The footage of the ship hitting the iceberg is from History Is Made at Night.
1961	"I Heard You Calling Me" Way Out	Daniel Petrie	Constance Ford Neil Fitzgerald Anthony Dawson	A woman planning to elope with a married man is invited on a free ocean cruise — by the ghost of the man's mother, who died on the Titanic.[15]
1966	"Rendezvous With Yesterday" The Time Tunnel	Irwin Allen	James Darren Robert Colbert	In the first episode of the series, the time travelers arrive on board the Titanic one day before the pending disaster. They try to warn the captain, but he has them locked up and they narrowly avoid going down with the ship.
1971	"Lone Survivor" Night Gallery	Gene Levitt	John Colicos Torin Thatcher Hedley Mattingly	This story in the anthology series was written by Rod Serling. A survivor in a Titanic lifeboat is discovered — three years after the event,[16] by the Lusitania.
1973	"Miss Forrest",[17] "A House Divided"[18] Upstairs, Downstairs	Bill Bain; Christopher Hodson	Rachel Gurney Patsy Smart Meg Wynn Owen David Langton Simon Williams Gordon Jackson Jean Marsh	The series' 3rd season opens with "Miss Forrest" where it is learned that two main characters are aboard the Titanic. Mistress Lady Marjorie Bellamy (Gurney) and her maid, Miss Roberts (Smart) are both presumed dead. In the next episode, "A House Divided" (commonly referred to as the "Titanic episode") it is learned that the maid survives, but is in emotional shock. Eventually she relates how her mistress died on the Titanic.
1979	S.O.S. Titanic	William Hale	David Janssen Cloris Leachman	Depiction of the doomed 1912 voyage from the perspective of three distinct groups of passengers in First, Second, and Third Class. Shorter version released theatrically in Europe. (*This was the first Titanic film in color shown to the public. Raise the Titanic was the first Titanic color made as it was filmed in 1978 and released in 1980.) The scenes of the ship sinking are colorized footage from A Night to Remember.
1983	"Voyagers of the Titanic" Voyagers!	Winrich Kolbe	Jon-Erik Hexum Meeno Peluce	Bogg and Jeff find themselves aboard the doomed Titanic. Although failing to prevent the disaster, they are able to save the Mona Lisa from being lost with the ship. Features footage from Raise The Titanic cut from the theatrical release.
1984	Titanic - Nachspiel einer Katastrophe	Lutz Büscher	Hans Korte Volkert Kraeft Arthur Brauss	English translation of the title: Titanic - Aftermath of a disaster Well researched German TV movie about the United States Senate inquiry into the sinking of the RMS Titanic under William Alden Smith. Several technical aspects (e.g. watertight compartments, wireless telegraphy) and particular involvements are discussed (e.g. Charles Lightoller, J. Bruce Ismay, Harold Bride).
1996	Titanic	Robert Lieberman	Peter Gallagher George C. Scott Catherine Zeta-Jones Tim Curry	This two-part miniseries was the first depiction to show the Titanic splitting in two.
1996	No Greater Love	Richard T. Heffron	Kelly Rutherford	Romance in which a young woman takes charge of her young siblings, upon losing her fiancé and parents in the disaster. Based on the Danielle Steel novel of the same name. The scenes of the ship sinking include footage from S.O.S. Titanic.
1998	"Titey" Saturday Night Live TV Funhouse cartoon[19][20]	David Wachtenheim	Jason Alexander Whoopi Goldberg Gilbert Gottfried Molly Ringwald Robert Smigel	2 minute animated parody stylized as a trailer for an upcoming Disney animated feature film about an anthropomorphic ship named Titey and his adventures on the sea.
1999	"Going Over-Boar'd" Timon & Pumbaa	Brad Neave	Kevin Schon Ernie Sabella	Timon and Pumbaa cause havoc on an ocean liner during their vacation, eventually causing it to hit an ice cube and sink.
1999	"A Flight to Remember" Futurama	Peter Avanzino	Billy West Katey Sagal John DiMaggio	The Planet Express team take a cruise on the largest spaceship ever built: the Titanic, which is torn in half by a black hole on its maiden voyage.
2005	Titanic: Birth of a Legend	William Lyons	Charles Dance Gordon Langford Rowe Charles Lawson Damian O'Hare Christopher Wright	A 70-minute docu-drama. The story focuses on the lives of the men who built Titanic and her sister ship Olympic.
2005	"Fu and Tell" American Dragon: Jake Long	Christian Roman	Tia Carrere John DiMaggio	Yan Yan and Fu Dog cause the Titanic to hit the iceberg during their various fights throughout history.
2007	"Voyage of the Damned" Doctor Who	James Strong	David Tennant Kylie Minogue	A luxury space cruiser called the Titanic, a pastiche of the ocean liner, crashes into the TARDIS. The Doctor works with a waitress named Astrid Peth to prevent an imminent collision with Earth.
2008	"The Cursed Tuba Contingency" The Middleman	Jeremiah Chechik	Matt Keeslar Natalie Morales	If a cursed tuba from the Titanic is played, it will cause all those who hear it to drown in the icy waters of the North Atlantic. So Wendy (Morales) and the Middleman (Kesslar) don period clothes and attend a Titanic-themed yacht party in order to stop the tuba's original owner, the sole survivor of the Titanic's Orchestra, who has not aged a day since the sinking, from giving a performance. In a flashback of the ship's sinking, footage from the 1943 film is used.
2010	"The Mutants Are Revolting" Futurama	Raymie Muzquiz	Billy West Katey Sagal John DiMaggio	In the sewers of New York, the crew discover the wreckage of the Land Titanic, the largest land-faring vessel ever built, which sailed down 5th Avenue in 2912 until it struck a mail box and sank into the ground.
2010	"Episode One" Downton Abbey	Brian Percival		The first series opens with news of the Crawley family heir's death aboard the Titanic.
2011	"My Heart Will Go On" Supernatural	Phil Sgriccia	Jared Padalecki Jensen Ackles Misha Collins	An angel who hates the 1997 movie changes history by averting the sinking of the Titanic. This results in about 50,000 descendants who otherwise would not have been born, but the Fates are now hunting the descendants who should not exist. By the end of the episode the angel undoes his actions.
2012	Saving The Titanic[21]	Maurice Sweeney	David Wilmot Ciarán McMenamin Owen McDonnell	90-minute PBS docu-drama. The story of the selfless engineers who worked tirelessly to keep the Titanic's essential electricity running during the tragedy. Renamed as Heroes of the Titanic for UK broadcast on History.[22]
2012	Titanic	Jon Jones	Linus Roache Geraldine Somerville	Four-part drama based around characters present on the ship during its sinking. Shows the Titanic splitting in two at a much shallower angle, in accordance with the new breakup theory.
2012	Titanic: Blood and Steel	Ciaran Donnelly	Neve Campbell Derek Jacobi	12-part drama, telling the story of the construction of the ship.
2014	"Yo-Kai Titanic" Yo-Kai Watch	Yoichi Kato	Haruka Tomatsu Tomokazu Seki	Keita and his friends are forced to act out a Yōkai themed Titanic sinking.

See also

• RMS Titanic in popular culture

References

1. Renzetti, Jackie. "Not Your Cameron's Titanic". Minnesota Daily. Retrieved 25 July 2014. In 2012, IMDb deemed this cartoon #1 on its Bottom 100 movies
2. "Can Anything Stop the Raising of Titanic on March 23?". New York Observer. February 22, 1998. Archived from the original on 2008-07-25. Retrieved December 1, 2010.
3. "Titanic". The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 19, 2010.
4. "La hantise (1912)" (in French). MoviePilot. Retrieved 13 November 2012. [English] The dealer Jean Trévoux postpones trip to New York ... Then he read in a brochure of the maiden voyage of the unsinkable Titanic and booked a cabin. His wife was predicted recently by a palm reader, the loss of a loved one ...
5. Lebovic, Matt (1 October 2013). "Goebbels' 'Titanic' cinematic disaster turns 70". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
6. Max Arthur (16 October 2000). "RAF pilots tricked into killing 10,000 camp survivors at end of war". The Independent. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
7. Isherwood, J.L. (May 1976). "Steamers of the Past: The Hamburg-South American Liner Cap Arcona". Sea Breezes.
8. Michael Janusonis, "VIDEO – Documentary just the tip of the iceberg for Titanic fans", The Providence Journal (5 September 2003), E-05.
9. "The Tale of Two TITANICS: a retrospective look at the VFX from A NIGHT TO REMEMBER and TITANIC". Retrieved 17 October 2012. Several miniature shots in A NIGHT TO REMEMBER were actually re-used scenes originally featured in the 1943 German version ... The shots were often optically flopped to appear new ... Side by side frame comparison of the engine room flooding miniature sequence shows that several effects cuts ... were in fact reused for the 1958 British version
10. Raise the Titanic at The-Numbers. Retrieved: Wednesday, April 11, 2012
11. "Titanica". IMAX Corporation. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
12. Koldau, Linda Maria (2012). The Titanic on Film: Myth versus Truth. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 68. ISBN 0786490373.
13. "In Search of the Titanic (2004)". IMDb. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
14. "The Last Signals (2012)". IMDb. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
15. Moving Picture Archive
16. "Episode Guide / The First Season Night Gallery #3 ( 12-30-70 )". Archived from the original on 2010-09-22. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
17. "Miss Forrest". Upstairs, Downstairs : Season Three. updown.org.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2014. This was the first episode of Series 3. It was also Rachel Gurney's departure from the show since it started three years before. Fans were truly shocked at the time with Gurney's character drowning on the Titanic
18. "A House Divided". Upstairs, Downstairs : Season Three. updown.org.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
19. "Titey." Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB). N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Jul 2012. <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290896/>.
20. "Titey." The Big Cartoon Database. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Jul 2012. <http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/78638-Titey.html>.
21. "Saving the Titanic". PBS ONLINE®. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
22. Cummins, Steve. "'Saving The Titanic' To Receive UK Premiere". IFTN. Retrieved 20 April 2012.

External links

• Titanic titles at the Internet Movie Database