TheTitanic has been featured in numerousfilms,TV movies andnotable TV episodes. On television, theTitanic has been featured in genres ranging from epic dramas to short cartoon parodies.
| Year | Title | Director | Cast | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | Saved from The Titanic | Étienne Arnaud | Dorothy Gibson Alec B. Francis | Co-written by and starringTitanic survivorDorothy Gibson and released only 29 days afterit sank. Now alost film following a studio fire in which the last known prints were destroyed. Only a few production stills remain. |
| 1912 | La hantise[1] | Louis Feuillade | Renée Carl René Navarre | Also known asThe Obsession, the film focuses on a woman who is told by a palm reader that one of her loved ones will die. The woman then tries to convince her husband not to board theTitanic, which is departing at Cherbourg. |
| 1912 | In Nacht und Eis | Mime Misu | Waldemar Hecker Otto Rippert Ernst Rückert | ("In Night and Ice"), also calledDer Untergang der Titanic ("The Sinking of the Titanic").Silent film produced inGermany; believed to be lost, but wasrediscovered in 1998 from a collector's copy. |
| 1929 | Atlantic /Atlantik | Ewald André Dupont | Franklin Dyall Madeleine Carroll | A highly fictionalized account, retitledTitanic: Disaster in the Atlantic in American home video releases; the firstsound film made about the disaster, and a pioneeringsound-on-film release, being produced in three languages: English, German, and French (and silent versions). TheGerman version was the first full-length German sound film and was a major hit there. It is believed to have been filmed aboard theWhite Star linerRMSMajestic. The title of the film,Atlantic, is also the name of the ship in the film, as the White Star Line refused to give the filmmakers permission to use the wordTitanic in the film. |
| 1933 | Cavalcade | Frank Lloyd | Diana Wynyard Clive Brook Margaret Lindsay John Warburton | This drama film was based on theeponymous play byNoël Coward. Two fictional main characters perish in the sinking.[2] |
| 1943 | Titanic | Werner Klingler Herbert Selpin | Sybille Schmitz Hans Nielsen E.F. Fürbringer | A 1943 GermanNazi propaganda film (personally overseen byJoseph Goebbels)[3] casting a fictitious German First Officer on theTitanic as the hero and the British as villains. The first film to use singularly the nameTitanic and intermix fictional subplots and characters with historical persons on board the ship. Filmed on board the German linerSSCap Arcona which was later mistakenly[4] sunk by theRAF withcivilian loss of life greatly exceeding that of theTitanic.[5] |
| 1953 | Titanic | Jean Negulesco | Clifton Webb Barbara Stanwyck Robert Wagner Audrey Dalton | American dramatic film centered on an estranged couple sailing on theTitanic during its ill-fated maiden voyage. |
| 1958 | A Night to Remember | Roy Ward Baker | Kenneth More Ronald Allen Robert Ayres Honor Blackman | Britishdocudrama based on theeponymous book byWalter Lord starringKenneth More as the ship's Second OfficerCharles Lightoller. Regarded as one of the mosthistorically accurateTitanic disaster films, with the notable 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. The accepted view at the time and the result of the inquiries was that she sank intact; it was only confirmed that she split after the wreck was found in 1985.)[6] Some effects scenes were 'borrowed' from the 1943 German film.[7] |
| 1964 | The Unsinkable Molly Brown | Charles Walters | Debbie Reynolds Harve Presnell Ed Begley | American musical film about the life ofMolly Brown, which culminates in her voyage aboard theTitanic. The screenplay byHelen Deutsch is based on the Richard Morrisbook of the1960 musical. The scene of theTitanichitting the iceberg is from the 1953 film and the scene of the ship sinking is colorized footage fromA Night to Remember. |
| 1980 | Raise the Titanic | Jerry Jameson | Jason Robards Richard Jordan David Selby Anne Archer Alec Guinness | Although adapted fromClive Cussler's popular novelRaise the Titanic!, this movie was poorly received by critics and proved to be abox office bomb, failing to recover its $40 million budget.[8] |
| 1992 | Titanica[9] | Stephen Low | Cedric Smith (original version) /Leonard Nimoy (edited versions) | 95-minuteIMAXdocumentary film largely focused on the discovery and exploration of thewreck of theTitanic. Two survivors are featured:Frank Goldsmith's recollections (1977 clip), andEva Hart is interviewed. |
| 1997 | Titanic | James Cameron | Leonardo DiCaprio Kate Winslet Billy Zane Kathy Bates Frances Fisher Gloria Stuart | ThisAmericanromanticepicdisaster film combines fictional main characters with some portrayals of passengers and crew based on historical figures. The film became one of themost expensive films ever made, costing approximatelyUS$200 million (more than theTitanic itself), topped thelist of highest-grossing films for twelve years and won 11Academy Awards.[10][11]Re-released in 2012 in formats which includeIMAX 3D; often billed asTitanic in 3D. Re-released in Dolby Vision in 2017 for the 20th anniversary. Actual footage ofthe wreck is included in the opening scenes. |
| 1997 | The Chambermaid (on the Titanic) | Bigas Luna | Aitana Sánchez-Gijón Olivier Martínez Romane Bohringer | French-Spanish-Italianromantic film about a stevedore who falls in love with one of theTitanic's chambermaids. From the French novel byDidier DecoinLa 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 | An animated fantasy tale about the sinking of the RMSTitanic, an international co-production between North Korea, the United States, Italy and Spain. 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 | ASpanish-Italian animated film about the sinking of the RMSTitanic. Also released asTitanic: The Animated Movie.[12] |
| 2004 | In Search of The Titanic[citation needed] | Kim J. Ok | Jane Alexander Rodolfo Bianchi Fabio Boccanera | A North Korean-Italian sequel to the animated filmThe Legend of the Titanic. Also known asTentacolino. |
| 2010 | Titanic II | Shane Van Dyke | Marie Westbrook Shane Van Dyke Bruce Davison Brooke Burns | A mockbuster set aboard a replica Titanic commemorating the 100th anniversary of the original's doomed voyage, and following the same route. |
| 2018 | Holmes & Watson | Etan Cohen | Will Ferrell John C. Reilly | In the final climax of this comedy film, two detectives prevent a plot to assassinateQueen Victoria by detonating a bomb on board theTitanic. TheTitanic was actually conceived and built a decade after Queen Victoria died. |
| 2021 | The Six | Arthur Jones | Steven Schwankert | A Chinese documentary film about the story of the six Chinese survivors of the RMSTitanic.[13][14] |
| 2022 | Titanic 666 | Nick Lyon | Jamie Bamber Keesha Sharp Lydia Hearst | A supernatural horror film and sequel to the filmTitanic II, set 110 years after the sinking of the original. Also known asTitanic Rises orTitanic III. |
| 2024 | Unsinkable: Titanic Untold | Cody Hartman | Cotter Smith Karen Allen Fiona Dourif Jayne Wisener | An Americanindependent film based on the rushed investigations, political interference and the grasp for corporate accountability, woven amongst flashbacks of theTitanic disaster as it unfolded. |
| Year | Title | Studio | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Search for the Titanic | Titanic 1980, Inc | Narrated byOrson Welles, documentsJack Grimm's July 1980 expedition. |
| 1981 | Return to the Titanic | Jack F. Grimm Productions | Narrated byJames Drury, documentsJack Grimm's June 1981 expedition. |
| 1981 | In Search of Titanic | Titanic 1981, Inc | A compilation film featuring footage fromSearch for the Titanic andReturn to the Titanic. |
| 1986 | Secrets of the Titanic | National Geographic | Documents the finding of the wreck of theTitanic and the 1986 expedition led by Robert Ballard to find theTitanic |
| 1986 | Titanic: The Nightmare and the Dream | TVS Television | This film shows theTitanic and the work carried out by Bob Ballard and his team when they discovered the historic vessel at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. |
| 1994 | Titanic: The Complete Story | A&E Channel | Four hour documentary in two parts: Death of a Dream (origin of the Titanic, and its tragic sinking. Includes interviews with survivors), and The Legend Lives on (the legacy of the Titanic, and the 1985 discovery of the ship by Robert Ballard). Considered by many experts as the definitive documentary of the Titanic. |
| 1996 | The Investigation Begins | Discovery Channel | Documents the first, failed attempt to recover "the big piece" of theTitanic's hull |
| 1997 | Anatomy of a Disaster | Discovery Channel | Documents an expedition to theTitanic to determine the effects of microbes on the wreck, document the damage from the iceberg, and test the strength ofTitanic's steel |
| 1998 | Titanic: Untold Stories | Discovery Channel | Historians retell the stories and experiences of the passengers from submersibles above theTitanic |
| 1999 | Deep Inside Titanic | Discovery Channel | Explores inside theTitanic with mini-subs |
| 1999 | Titanic: Answers from the Abyss | Discovery Channel | Efforts to document the entire wreck in a photomosaic, explores the breakup angle of the ship, the effect of watertight doors and the sinking of the bow section to the sea floor |
| 2002 | Titanic: 90 Years Below | Discovery Channel | Documents the efforts to find, explore and document theTitanic wreck, and the technology developed to find her... including a 2001 expedition to document theTitanic wreck with HD cameras |
| 2003 | Modern Marvels: Titanic Tech | History Channel | Explores the technology used aboard theTitanic |
| 2003 | Ghosts of the Abyss | Disney | James Cameron returns to theTitanic with select cast members from the 1997 movie to explore more of the wreck |
| 2005 | Last Mysteries of the Titanic with James Cameron | Discovery Channel | Expedition with James Cameron to explore the interior of the wreck of theTitanic and document the condition of many unseen areas such as the Turkish baths and First Class Boarding Entrance |
| 2005 | Titanic: Birth of a Legend | Discovery Channel | Dramatization of the construction of theTitanic at Harland & Wolfe Shipyard, with many photographs of the ship and her sisterOlympic under construction |
| 2006 | Seconds From Disaster: Sinking of the Titanic | National Geographic | Dramatization explaining how the "Unsinkable" ship sunk. |
| 2007 | Titanic's Achilles Heel | History Channel | Documentary explores the theory thatTitanic's expansion joints contributed to the breakup of the hull |
| 2008 | Titanic: Ballard's Secret Mission | National Geographic | Documentary reveals the true purpose of Robert Ballard's expedition to find theTitanic was a secret mission by the US Navy |
| 2011 | What Sank Titanic | Discovery Channel – Curiosity | Explains how the mechanical sophistication of theTitanic was beaten by an iceberg. Recreations and historical analysis explore the mysteries of the tragedy. |
| 2012 | Titanic at 100: Mystery Solved | History Channel | Explores the possibility thatTitanic had a fatal flaw that doomed the ship. |
| 2012 | Titanic: Case Closed (British/international title) /Titanic's Final Mystery (American title)[16][17] | National Geographic (U.K./International)/Smithsonian Channel/Paramount (U.S.) | Presents a new theory whyTitanic was unable to avoid the iceberg, and why nearby ships seemed to ignore theTitanic, and were even uncertain whether the lights they saw were theTitanic |
| 2012 | Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron | National Geographic | James Cameron presents a new analysis and theory into the sequence of the sinking and breakup of theTitanic, informed by a paper by J.W. Stettler of the USCG |
| 2012 | Save the Titanic with Bob Ballard | National Geographic | Bob Ballard examines the damage to the wreck from repeated expeditions and implores that the wreck be protected by international agreements to prevent looting |
| 2020 | Back to the Titanic | National Geographic | First Expedition to return to theTitanic in nearly 15 years (claimed) examines the worsening state of decay of the wreck |
| 2020 | Titanic's Lost Evidence | History Channel | Examines the notes of Lord Mersey from original 1912 British inquiry |
| 2022 | Mysteries from the Grave: The Titanic | Tubi | Interviews with survivors' family also featuresTitanic honor and glory |
| 2024 | How It Really Happened: Titanic | CNN | Reviews latest findings and addresses the Titan Submersible tragedy |
| 2025 | Titanic: The Digital Resurrection/Titanic: The Digital Resurrection: Beyond the Wreck (extended version)[18][19] | National Geographic | New examination of the tragedy through analysis of "Digital Twin" |
| Year | Title | Director | Cast | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | "The Sinking of the Titanic: You Are There" You Are There | Walter Cronkite | Tod Hunter Klieth Roberts Harlow Wilkoff | Episode of a CBS program calledYou Are There. |
| 1955 | "The Titanic Incident" Screen Directors Playhouse | Ted Tetzlaff | Leo Genn,May Wynn, andPhilip Reed | Television episode ofScreen Directors Playhouse set aboard theTitanic. |
| 1956 | "A Night to Remember" Kraft Television Theatre | George Roy Hill | Bradford Dillman Neil North | Live TV adaptation ofWalter Lord's 1955book of the same name; narrated byClaude Rains. |
| 1957 | "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" Telephone Time | Erle C. Kenton | Cloris Leachman | Short segment (using footage from the 1943 German film) from the TV version ofJohn Nesbitt'sPassing Parade series. Leachman would again play the same role inS.O.S. Titanic (1979). |
| 1959 | "Night of April 14th" Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond | John Newland | Patrick Macnee Barbara Lord Isobel Elsom | Purporteddocudrama relating stories of premonitions and nightmares preceding the disaster. The scene of theTitanic hitting the iceberg is from the 1937 drama filmHistory Is Made at Night of the fictional ocean liner SSPrincess Irene. |
| 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 theTitanic.[20] |
| 1966 | "Rendezvous With Yesterday" The Time Tunnel | Irwin Allen | James Darren Robert Colbert | In the first episode of the series, thetime travelers arrive on board theTitanic one day before the pending disaster. They try to warn the captain, but disbelieving them, he has them locked up and they narrowly avoid going down with the ship. Some footage and sets from the 1953 film are included in the episode. |
| 1971 | "Lone Survivor" Night Gallery | Gene Levitt | John Colicos Torin Thatcher Hedley Mattingly | This story in the anthology series was written byRod Serling. A survivor in aTitanic lifeboat is discovered – three years after the event,[21] by theLusitania. |
| 1973 | "Miss Forrest",[22] "A House Divided"[23] Upstairs, Downstairs | Bill Bain; Christopher Hodson | Rachel Gurney Patsy Smart Meg Wynn Owen David Langton Simon Williams Gordon Jackson Jean Marsh | Theseries' 3rd season opens with "Miss Forrest" where it is learned that two main characters are aboard theTitanic. MistressLady Marjorie Bellamy (Gurney) and her maid,Miss Roberts (Smart) are both presumed dead. In the next episode, "A House Divided", it is learned that the maid survives, but is in emotional shock. Eventually she relates how hermistress died on theTitanic. |
| 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. Some characters are based on historical figures. Shorter version released theatrically in Europe. The scenes of the ship sinking are colorized footage fromA Night to Remember. Some scenes were filmed aboard theTSSManxman and theRMSQueen Mary. This was the firstTitanic film to be released incolor. |
| 1983 | "Voyagers of the Titanic" Voyagers! | Winrich Kolbe | Jon-Erik Hexum Meeno Peluce | Bogg and Jeff find themselves aboard the doomedTitanic. Jeff wants to prevent the disaster, but Bogg warns him he can't: it is destined to happen. Although failing to prevent the disaster, they save theMona Lisa from being lost with the ship. Footage of the ship sinking was cut from the opening fromRaise The Titanic. Also contains colorized footage of the iceberg and theTitanic from the 1953 film, stock footage of theRMSQueen Mary and some scenes filmed aboard theQueen Mary. |
| 1983 | "Terror on the Titanic" Superfriends | During a diving exploration on the Titanic wreck two divers were attacked by algae monsters caused by a mutation from the ship's wreckage when it sank. WhenAquaman andBlack Vulcan was sent over, the algae monsters turn the Titanic into a living monster that eats boats and went on a rampage on Newfondland. The Titanic-monster was defeated by Aquaman and Black Vulcan when they tricked it into crashing into a iceberg and made it sank again as a result. | ||
| 1984 | Titanic - Nachspiel einer Katastrophe | Lutz Büscher | Hans Korte Volkert Kraeft Arthur Brauss | (Titanic – Aftermath of a disaster), German TVcourtroom drama centered on theUnited States Senate inquiry into the sinking of theTitanic. |
| 1996 | Titanic | Robert Lieberman | Peter Gallagher George C. Scott Catherine Zeta-Jones Tim Curry | This two-part television drama was the first depiction to show theTitanic 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 theDanielle Steelnovel of the same name. The scenes of the ship sinking include footage fromS.O.S. Titanic; as in that film, some scenes were filmed aboard theQueen Mary. |
| 1999 | "A Flight to Remember" Futurama | Peter Avanzino | Billy West Katey Sagal John DiMaggio | The Planet Express team take a cruise on the largeststarship ever built: theTitanic, which is torn in half and sucked into ablack hole on its maiden voyage. |
| 2000 | Britannic | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Edward Atterton Amanda Ryan Jacqueline Bisset John Rhys-Davies | This television film is mostly about the sinking of theTitanic's sister shipHMHSBritannic, but includes aTitanic survivor's flashback showing theTitanic sinking.[24] |
| 2002 | Thumbtanic | Steve Oedekerk | Short film (26 min.) which parodies the 1997 film; part of theThumbs! series | |
| 2005 | Titanic: Birth of a Legend | William Lyons | Charles Dance Gordon Langford Rowe Charles Lawson Damian O'Hare Christopher Wright | A 70-minutedocudrama. The story focuses on the lives of the men who builtTitanic and her sister shipRMSOlympic. |
| 2007 | "Voyage of the Damned" Doctor Who | James Strong | David Tennant Kylie Minogue | A luxury space cruiser called theTitanic, apastiche of the ocean liner, crashes into theTARDIS.The Doctor works with a waitress to prevent a collision with Earth. In another episode entitled "Turn Left", theTitanic crashes intoLondon, killing millions. |
| 2008 | "The Cursed Tuba Contingency" The Middleman | Jeremiah Chechik | Matt Keeslar Natalie Morales | To avert dire consequences, the Middleman (Kesslar) and Wendy (Morales) must prevent a tuba from theTitanic from being played. 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 New York, the Planet Express crew discover the wreck of theLand Titanic, the largestarticulated bus ever built, which sailed downFifth Avenue in 2912 and struck amail box and sank into the ground. |
| 2010 | Titanic II | Shane Van Dyke | Shane Van Dyke Brooke Burns | A cruise liner sets sail on the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's doomed maiden voyage. When a tsunami hurls an iceberg into the ship's path, the crew and passengers struggle to avoid suffering the same fate as their predecessors. |
| 2010 | "Episode One" Downton Abbey | Brian Percival | The first series opens with news ofthe Crawley family heir's death aboard theTitanic. Also referenced in Episode Six ofSeason 2. | |
| 2011 | "My Heart Will Go On" Supernatural | Phil Sgriccia | Jared Padalecki Jensen Ackles Misha Collins | An angel changes history by averting the sinking of theTitanic, with unforeseen consequences. |
| 2012 | Saving the Titanic[25] | Maurice Sweeney | David Wilmot Ciarán McMenamin Owen McDonnell | 90-minutePBSdocudrama. The story of the selfless engineers who kept theTitanic's essential electricity running during the tragedy. Renamed asHeroes of the Titanic for UK broadcast onHistory.[citation needed] |
| 2012 | Titanic | Jon Jones | Linus Roache Geraldine Somerville | Four-part television drama based around characters present on the ship during its sinking. Shows theTitanic splitting in two at a much shallower angle, in accordance with anew breakup theory. |
| 2012 | Titanic: Blood and Steel | Ciaran Donnelly | Neve Campbell Derek Jacobi | 12-part television drama, telling the story of the construction of the ship. Contains numerousdeviations from historical facts, mostly regarding the construction timeline. |
| 2012 | Titanic: The Aftermath | Marion Milne | Jeremy Akerman John Dunsworth | 90-minute docudrama on the lives of those who survived the sinking. |
| 2015 | "Stewie, Chris, & Brian's Excellent Adventure" Family Guy | Joe Vaux | Seth MacFarlane Alex Borstein Seth Green | In the second half of the episode,Stewie,Brian, andChris end up on theTitanic during theirtime travel adventure and manage to leave the ship during the sinking. |
| 2022 | Titanic 666 | Nick Lyon | Joseph Gatt Jhey Castles Michael J. Chen | Following the events ofTitanic II, theTitanic III begins its maiden voyage to the original wreck site. However, the passengers start turning into ghosts after the ship's arrival, resulting in the sinking of the ship. |
[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 ...
Several miniature shots inA 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
