RMS Titanic has been featured in a large number of films and TV movies.
| Poster | Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |
| 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 |
First film to feature a fictitious love story set on the Titanic, a technique that went on to become a staple in subsequent films on the topic. | |
| 1920 | Sex | Fred Niblo | Louise Glaum Irving Cummings |
Vamp Louise Glaum and company cross the Atlantic on a fictional ship called Gigantic. Britannic's alleged 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. Regarded as one of the most historically accurate Titanic disaster films. | |
| 1964 | The Unsinkable Molly Brown | Charles Walters | Debbie Reynolds Harve Presnell Ed Begley |
American musical film directed by Charles Walters about the life of Molly Brown, which culminates in her voyage aboard the Titanic. 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 $35 million estimated budget. | |
| 1983 | Voyagers! | Winrich Kolbe | Jon-Erik Hexum Meeno Peluce |
In the episode "Voyagers of the Titanic," aired on NBC on February 27, 1983, characters Bogg and Jeff find themselves on the Titanic just prior to when it is supposed to strike the iceberg. Although they fail to prevent the Titanic from striking the iceberg, they are able to save the Mona Lisa from being lost with the ship. | |
| 1995 | Titanica | 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 | Kelly Rutherford | 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. The best known film about the Titanic disaster. The main characters are fictional, but some characters (such as members 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. | |
| 1997 | La camarera del Titanic | Bigas Luna | Aitana Sánchez-Gijón Olivier Martínez Romane Bohringer Salvador Madrid Didier Bezace Aldo Maccione Jean-Marie Juan Arno Chevrier Marianne Groves Didier Benareau |
French-Spanish-Italian romantic film. Film about a stevedore who falls in love with a waitress of the Titanic. | |
| 1999 | The Legend of the Titanic | Kim J. Ok Orlando Corradi |
Jane Alexander Sean Patrick Lovett Anna Mazzotti Francis Pardeilhan Teresa Pascarelli Gregory Snegoff |
Italian animated film about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. | |
| 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 |
Another 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 |
3-D IMAX documentary film released by Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media. | |
| 2004 | In Search of the Titanic | Kim J. Ok | Jane Alexander Rodolfo Bianchi Fabio Boccanera Paolo Buglioni Stefano Crescentini Oliviero Dinelli Sergio Luzi Anna Mazzotti Stefano Mondini Francis Pardeilhan Gregory Snegoff |
A sequel to the Italian animated film The Legend of the Titanic. | |
| 2004 | Shark Tale | Vicky Jenson Bibo Bergeron Rob Letterman |
Will Smith, Renée Zellweger, Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro, and Martin Scorsese (voices only). | In the film, the sharks' mob hangout is the wreck of the RMS Titanic. | |
| 2010 | Titanic II | Shane Van Dyke | Bruce Davison Brooke Burns Shane Van Dyke Marie Westbrook |
The film takes place in 2012, 100 years since the sinking of the RMS Titanic. A new luxury cruise liner, the Titanic II, 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 fate of her predecessor. | |
| 2012 | Titanic | Ben Bishop Glen Blackhall Ruth Bradley |
Four part television drama based around characters present on the ship during its sinking | ||
| 2012 | Titanic: Blood and Steel | Neve Campbell Derek Jacobi Chris Noth Kevin Zegers |
12 part television drama based around the construction and subsequent sinking of the ship | ||
| 2012 | Titanic' 3D | James Cameron's 1997 film re-released in high definition 2D, 3D, IMAX 2D and 3D |
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 one of the highest-grossing films in history. The film grossed over $1.8 billion worldwide and won 11 Academy Awards. The wide success of the film spurred interest in the Titanic story to a new generation.
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