History Series / Titanic1996

** Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall goes down with the ship.

*** Captain Rostron is shown ordering his crew to cut off heat and hot water taps, to redirect every ounce of steam into the engines. The crew of ''Carpathia'' actually did this, reaching a speed of 17.5 knots (well beyond their rated maximum speed) and shaving nearly an hour off their travel time (though that may also be because ''Titanic'' was actually thirteen miles east of their reported location).

%% * AgeGapRomance: Late-40s John Jacob Astor and his teenage wife Madeleine.

* DeathByAdaptation: Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall goes down with the ship.

** When the ''Carpathia'' arrives in New York, the modern 50-star American flag is on display. It should only have 46 stars.[[note]]While Arizona did become the 48th state in February 1912, the 48-star flag was not adopted until July.[[/note]]

** Jamie accidentally falling into a lifeboat and injuring himself.

* MayDecemberRomance: Late-40s John Jacob Astor and his teenage wife Madeleine.

* DisasterMovie: A miniseries about giant ocean liner sinking after hitting an iceberg.

* DisasterMovie

* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Trevor Allison and Mrs. Foley's pet Pomeranian Charlie survive the sinking.

* RammingAlwaysWorks: Captain Smith chastises First Officer Murdoch for trying to swerve around the iceberg instead of hitting it head-on to minimize damage. The entry for this trope on UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic goes into more detail, but in summary, at best, ramming would have likely killed many of the people who were sleeping in the bow. Not to mention, the first instinct of any competent sailor is ''not'' to ram their ship into an obstacle.

** Another bizarre aversion by Wynn; he seems to already be aware that the ''Titanic'' disaster will be one of the best known events in history and tells Isabella that someday they will "brag about it" to their grandchildren.

* ForegoneConclusion: [[CaptainObvious The ship sinks]].

** Mr. Dickie loses his ticket and misses the ship. However, he more than likely wouldn't have survived the sinking.

* BrattyHalfPint: Loraine Allison is portrayed as an insufferable, loud, and spoiled brat. Presumably so the audience wouldn't get too attached to her once the final scenes of episode two roll around.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Lots. Captain Smith and the other ''Titanic'' officers, Bruce Ismay, Margaret Brown, John Jacob and Madeline Astor, the Strausses, the Allisons etc, though some are only loosely based on their real life counterparts.

** Captain Smith
** The Band
** The gentlemen in the First Class Smoking Room
** The Jack Family are an especially heartbreaking example

** The Jack Family are an especially heartbreaking example.

*** Wireless operators Phillips and Bride did fight with a stoker who attempted to steal their lifebelts just as they were about to leave for the boat deck.

** Despite the many inaccuracies mentioned above, the miniseries does reference a number of obscure events about the sinking:

** Bess Allison. After Alice runs out with baby Trevor, screaming about how they're going to drown, she stands in the hallway yelling for Alice and saying she doesn't have his sugar water.

** Molly Brown yells at the officers who effectively force her into a lifeboat, asaying she's going to have a word with Captain Smith about this.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Benjamin Guggenheim is pointed out by Mrs Foley, who notes his scandalous backstory (despite being married, he was travelling back to America with his mistress), but he is never seen again. Not even for the real Guggenheim's CrowningMomentOfAwesome when he declined to wear a lifejacket and put on his best clothes, declaring that he would go down like a gentleman. Everyone else mentioned by Mrs Foley - the Astors, Molly Brown, the Strausses - at least gets some screen time.

*** In the same scene, Jamie also tells Aase that he was enthralled with a beautiful young film actress named "Mary Pickford." In 1912, films did not have credits and most of the actors were unknown to the general public. Mary Pickford didn't become a full blown film star (one of the very first) and a household name until 1917, five years after the ''Titanic'' disaster.