The Titanic has been featured in numerous films, TV movies and notable TV episodes. On television, the Titanic has been featured in genres ranging from epic dramas to short cartoon parodies.

Theatrically released cinema dramas

Year Title Director Cast Notes 1912 Saved fromThe Titanic Étienne Arnaud Dorothy GibsonAlec B. Francis Co-written by and starring Titanic survivor Dorothy Gibson and released only 29 days after the ship sank. Now a lost film following a studio fire in which the last known prints were destroyed. Only a few production stills remain. 1912 La hantise Louis Feuillade Renée CarlRené Navarre Also known as The 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 the Titanic, which is departing at Cherbourg. 1912 In Nacht und Eis Mime Misu Waldemar HeckerOtto RippertErnst 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, but was rediscovered in 1998 from a collector's copy. 1929 Atlantic / Atlantik / Atlantis Franklin DyallMadeleine Carroll A highly fictionalized account, retitled Titanic: Disaster in the Atlantic in American home video releases; the first sound film made about the disaster, and 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. It is believed to have been filmed aboard the White Star liner RMS Majestic. 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 word Titanic in the film. 1933 Cavalcade Frank Lloyd Diana WynyardClive BrookMargaret LindsayJohn Warburton This drama film was based on the eponymous play by Noël Coward. Two fictional main characters perish in the sinking. 1943 Titanic Werner KlinglerHerbert Selpin Sybille SchmitzHans NielsenE.F. Fürbringer A 1943 German Nazi propaganda film (personally overseen by Joseph Goebbels) 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 sunk by the RAF with civilian loss of life greatly exceeding that of the Titanic. 1953 Titanic Jean Negulesco Clifton WebbBarbara StanwyckRobert WagnerAudrey Dalton American dramatic film centered on an estranged couple sailing on the Titanic during its ill-fated maiden voyage. 1958 A Night to Remember Roy Ward Baker Kenneth MoreRonald AllenRobert AyresHonor Blackman British docudrama based on the eponymous 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 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.)Michael Janusonis, "VIDEO – Documentary just the tip of the iceberg for Titanic fans", The Providence Journal (5 September 2003), E-05. Some effects scenes were 'borrowed' from the 1943 German film. 1964 The UnsinkableMolly Brown Charles Walters Debbie ReynoldsHarve PresnellEd 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. The scene of the Titanic hitting the iceberg is from the 1953 film and the scene of the ship sinking is colorized footage from A Night to Remember. 1980 Raise the Titanic Jerry Jameson Jason Robards Richard JordanDavid SelbyAnne ArcherAlec 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.Raise the Titanic at The-Numbers. Retrieved: Wednesday, 11 April 2012 1992 Titanica Stephen Low Cedric Smith (original version) / Leonard Nimoy (edited versions) 95-minute IMAX documentary film largely focused on the discovery and exploration of the wreck of the Titanic. Two survivors are featured: Frank Goldsmith's recollections (1977 clip), and Eva Hart is interviewed. 1997 Titanic James Cameron Leonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletBilly ZaneKathy BatesFrances FisherGloria Stuart This American romantic epic disaster film combines fictional main characters with some portrayals of passengers and crew based on historical figures. The film became one of the most expensive films ever made, costing approximately US$200 million (more than the Titanic itself), topped the list of highest-grossing films for twelve years and won 11 Academy Awards. Re-released in 2012 in formats which include IMAX 3D; often billed as Titanic in 3D. Re-released in Dolby Vision in 2017 for the 20th anniversary. Actual footage of the wreck is included in the opening scenes. 1997 The Chambermaid(on the Titanic) Bigas Luna Aitana Sánchez-GijónOlivier MartínezRomane Bohringer French-Spanish-Italian romantic film about a stevedore who falls in love with one of the Titanic chambermaids.From the French novel by Didier Decoin La femme de chambre du Titanic (also original title of film). 1999 The Legend ofThe Titanic Kim J. OkOrlando Corradi Jane AlexanderSean Patrick LovettFrancis PardeilhanGregory Snegoff An animated fantasy tale about the sinking of the RMS Titanic, 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 Camillo Teti, Kim Lox Lisa RussoGisella MatthewsKenneth BeltonGregory Snegoff A Spanish-Italian animated film about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Also released as Titanic: The Animated Movie. 2004 In Search ofThe Titanic Kim J. Ok Jane AlexanderRodolfo BianchiFabio Boccanera A North Korean-Italian sequel to the animated film The Legend of the Titanic. Also known as Tentacolino.2010 Titanic II Shane Van Dyke Marie WestbrookShane Van DykeBruce DavisonBrooke 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 FerrellJohn C. Reilly In the final climax of this comedy film, two detectives prevent a plot to assassinate Queen Victoria by detonating a bomb on board the Titanic. The Titanic was actually conceived and built a decade after Queen Victoria died. 2021 The Six Arthur Jones Steven SchwankertA Chinese documentary film about the story of the six Chinese survivors of the RMS Titanic.2022 Titanic 666 Nick Lyon Jamie BamberKeesha SharpLydia HearstA supernatural horror film and sequel to the film Titanic II, set 10 years later and 110 years after the Titanic disaster. Also known as Titanic Rises or Titanic III. 2024 Unsinkable: Titanic Untold Cody HartmanCotter SmithKaren AllenFiona DourifJayne WisenerAn American independent film based on the rushed investigations, political interference and the grasp for corporate accountability, woven amongst flashbacks of the Titanic disaster as it unfolded.2025The Day the Titanic sankPierre-Yves BezatPatrick Chesnais Carl Malapa Clara Antoons

Gérard LanvinApril 1912. The American banker JP Morgan decides not to attend the inaugural cruise of the Titanic. The day after, the lobby boy of the palace receives a phone call: the ship sank during the night. He has to announce to the tycoon the terrible news. French language short film. Also known as Le Jour où le Titanic a coulé.

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