History Film / ANightToRemember

* TakeThat: One of the taglines of the film was 'The Real Story of the RMS Titanic', a jab at the less-than accurate 1953 ''Film/{{Titanic|1953}}'' film. Sylvia Lightoller, widow of the real life Charles Lightoller, remarked in an interview that "the film is really the truth and has not been embroidered," though there's quite some artistic licence made both for dramatic effect and to avoid [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed legal action]].

* TakeThat: One of the taglines of the film was 'The Real Story of the RMS Titanic', a jab at the less-than accurate 1953 ''Titanic'' film. Sylvia Lightoller, widow of the real life Charles Lightoller, remarked in an interview that "the film is really the truth and has not been embroidered," though there's quite some artistic licence made both for dramatic effect and to avoid [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed legal action]].

* DownerEnding: Most of the cast end up dead. [[ForegoneConclusion But you knew that already]]

* AgeLift: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Corse_Evans Edith Evans]], who is seen being refused a seat in collapsible D (she was one of only four women and children in First Class who died in the sinking), is shown to be an elderly woman, but the ''real'' Edith Evans was only 36 at the time of her death.

* AgeLift: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Corse_Evans Edith Evans]], who is seen being refused a seat in collapsible D (she was one of only five women and children in First Class who died in the sinking), is shown to be an elderly woman, but the ''real'' Edith Evans was only 36 at the time of her death.

* StockFootage: Scattered throughout the film. The fictional christening scene (the real ''Titanic'' didn't have one) is interspersed with clips of the 1938 launch of RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'' (the clothes on the women in the crowd is a dead giveaway this footage is not from 1911) and other ships. The scene of ''Titanic'' leaving Southampton is pieced together from footage of various large four funneled ocean liners leaving port. Most interestingly, four clips--two shots of the ship sailing through the North Atlantic in daytime (if one looks closely, it becomes quite noticeable that the miniature of the ship in those shots looks almost nothing like the large model used in the nighttime and sinking shots) two shots of a flooding engine room walkway--were recycled from the [[Film/{{Titanic1943}} 1943 Nazi propaganda]] ''Titanic'' film.

* StockFootage: Scattered throughout the film. The fictional christening scene (the real ''Titanic'' didn't have one) is interspersed with clips of the 1938 launch of RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'' (the clothes on the women in the crowd is a dead giveaway this footage is not from 1911) and other ships. The scene of ''Titanic'' leaving Southampton is pieced together from footage of various large four funneled ocean liners leaving port. Most interestingly, four clips--two shots of the ship sailing through the North Atlantic in daytime (if one looks closely, it becomes quite noticeable that the miniature of the ship in those shots looks almost nothing like the large model used in the nighttime and sinking shots) two shots of a flooding engine room walkway--were recycled from the [[Film/{{Titanic1943}} 1943 Nazi propaganda]] ''Titanic'' film.

NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Sir Cosmo and his wife Lucy Duff-Gordon are replaced by a fictitious married couple, “Lord and Lady Richard.”

* StockFootage: Scattered throughout the film. The fictional christening scene (the real ''Titanic'' didn't have one) is interspersed with clips of the 1938 launch of RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'' (the clothes on the women in the crowd is a dead giveaway this footage is not from 1911) and other ships. Most interestingly, four clips--two shots of the ship sailing in calm waters, and two shots of a flooding engine room walkway--were recycled from the [[Film/{{Titanic1943}} 1943 Nazi propaganda]] ''Titanic'' film.

* TakeThat: One of the taglines of the film was 'The Real Story of the RMS Titanic', a jab at the less-than accurate 1953 ''Titanic'' film.

* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Not that hundreds of women and children don't die either, but it's shown explicitly at the memorial at the end. There are men dotted in the crowd, but it's overwhelming made up of women. Also it's shown how the officers had different views in regards to this. Captain Smith gives the order for women and children to go into the boats. Lightoller takes this to be an absolute and doesn't allow any men, except for Major Peuchen and the designated crew, to get in. Murdoch takes this to mean women and children are the priority, but men are allowed if there's room available. Several married couples and single men realize this and deliberately go to Murdoch's boats to escape.

* StockFootage: Scattered throughout the film. The christening is a Stock Footage clip (the real ''Titanic'' didn't have one). Most interestingly, four clips--two shots of the ship sailing in calm waters, and two shots of a flooding engine room walkway--were recycled from the [[Film/{{Titanic1943}} 1943 Nazi propaganda]] ''Titanic'' film.

* TogetherInDeath

* InfantImmortality: Averted, naturally; most poignantly with the waiter who takes a young boy who's lost his mother under his wing, stops him from being crushed by the crowd... only for them to both drown minutes later.
** In a later scene (that gets cut for broadcast more often than not), two of the Irish steerage passengers make it to the overturned Collapsible B with a child in their arms. They pass the infant to Lightoller. Lightoller takes one look inside the child's hood, realizes it's dead and sets it adrift in the ocean.

* PoorCommunicationKills: In a literal sense; the crew spend the ships last hours trying, and failing, to communicate with the ''Californian'', just visible on the horizon.

* ContrastMontage: At the start of the film, we see an upper-class English lady and her entourage, a middle-class newlywed couple and some Irish immigrants preparing for their voyage.

Sir Richard when addressing the girls who wave him and his wife off. ‘The workhouse kids. Making sure of their Christmas turkey from home farm’

Thomas Andrews: ‘She can’t float’ when Captain Smith claims Titanic is ‘unsinkable’ and ‘Yes we may’ to Robbie Lucas on ‘being on the same boat later’

Yates as the ship lists during a poker game. ‘What shall we play now gentlemen? Happy families?’

Harold Bride arguably delivers the most famous one which he apparently joked in real life: ‘Try SOS the new distress call. It may be the only chance you ever have’.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Captain Smith and Mr. Andrews comment on the fact that the Board of Trade's lifeboat regulations were not at ''all'' well thought out.

Plus if Thomas Andrews had the watertight bulkheads sealed the ship may have not sank.

* ContrastMontage: At the start of the film, we see an upper-class English lady and her entourage, a middle-class newlywed couple and some Irish emmigrants preparing for their voyage.

* TheDeterminator: Captain Rostron of the ''Carpathia'', who tries to reach the ''Titanic'' before it sinks with no regard to the hazards facing his own ship. The fact that he fails to reach ''Titanic'' in time doesn't diminish the CrowningMomentOfAwesome in the least.

* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: Inverted with Bruce Ismay. He is portrayed a short pudgy middle aged man with a mousy mustache. The real J. Bruce Ismay was [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iAP7__qYAbE/Uye0I9MgdyI/AAAAAAAAo0E/PlxnLlx3S4o/s1600/Ismay.jpg a good deal more attractive]].

* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Not that hundreds of women and children don't die either, but it's shown explicitly at the memorial at the end. There are a men dotted in the crowd, but it's overwhelming made up of women.

* OhCrap: Several people's faces on hearing the news the ship is sinking. Also the reaction of the ''Carpathia'' wireless operator when he hears the distress call.

* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Not that hundreds of women and children don't die either.

* OhCrap: Several people's faces on hearing the news the ship is sinking.

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Surprisingly averted. This is the other only ''Titanic'' film (the other being the 1979 mini-series ''S.O.S. Titanic'') that does not hold Bruce Ismay responsible for the sinking or portray him holding any type of influence over Captain Smith and forcing him to sail the ship full speed into an ice field just to "make headlines."

* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: Inverted with Bruce Ismay. He is portrayed a short pudgy middle aged man with a mousy mustache. The real J. Bruce Ismay was [[https://www.moviestillsdb.com/movies/all-of-me-i86873/90e679 a good deal more attractive]].