History Series / Titanic1996

* AdaptationalNameChange: During the sinking, Ida Straus addresses her said as "Sophia," but in reality her maid's name was Ellen Bird.

The film follows three plots:

* DeathOfAChild: Loraine Allison and the fictional Jack family all die in the sinking. Sadly, this is a well known example of TruthInTelevision.

* DatedHistory: Alice Cleaver being portrayed as a child murderer. In defense if the miniseries, it was widely believed in the early 90s, during the resurgence of interest in ''Titanic'', that Alice was indeed a convicted murderer. At least two books even accepted this as fact, including Don Lynch and Ken Marschall's otherwise exhaustive ''Titanic: An Illustrated History''. Only in recent years it was confirmed that the woman who murdered her baby in 1909 was Alice ''Mary'' Cleaver, completely unrelated to Alice ''Catherine'' Cleaver, the Allison family nurse.

* AdaptationalNameChange: During the sinking, Ida Straus addresses her said as "Sophia," but in reality her maid's name was Helen Bird.

* DatedHistory: Alice Cleaver being portrayed as a child murderer. In the miniseries's defense, it was widely believed in the early 90s, during the resurgence of interest in ''Titanic'', that Alice was indeed a convicted murderer. At least two books even accepted this as fact, including Don Lynch and Ken Marschall's exhaustive ''Titanic: An Illustrated History''. It was not until later that it was proved that Alice ''Mary'' Cleaver the murderer was a completely different woman to Alice ''Catherine'' Cleaver the Allison's nurse.

* DatedHistory: Alice Cleaver being portrayed as a child murderer. It was widely believed in the early 90s, during the resurgence of interest in ''Titanic'', that Alice was indeed a convicted murderer. At least two books even accepted this as fact, including Don Lynch and Ken Marschall's ''Titanic: An Illustrated History''. It was not until later that it was proved that Alice ''Mary'' Cleaver the murderer was a completely different woman to Alice ''Catherine'' Cleaver the Allison's nurse.

* DatedHistory: Alice Cleaver being portrayed as a child murderer. It was widely believed in the early 90s, during the resurgence of interest in ''Titanic'', that Alice was indeed a convicted murderer. At least two books even accepted this as fact, including Ken Marschall's ''Titanic: An Illustrated History''. It was not until later that it was proved that Alice ''Mary'' Cleaver the murderer was a completely different woman to Alice ''Catherine'' Cleaver the Allison's nurse.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Ismay suggests Isidor Straus joins his wife in a lifeboat, seeing that no one would object. [[GoingDownWithTheShip Isidor refuses to leave]], and [[DirtyCoward Ismay]] looks at him like he’s crazy.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Wynn mentioning to Isabella that they'll tell their grandkids about being on the ''Titanic'', saying that it's a perfect story with action, danger, and romance.

* AdultFear: A madwoman who has murdered her own child in the past has run off with your baby while your family is in the middle of one of the deadliest shipwrecks in history.
** The Jack family spends hours navigating the bowels of the ships, through endless companionways and locked gates to get to the boat deck, only to find out that all the lifeboats have been launched and now they, and their children, have minutes left to live.

* YourCheatingHeart: Isabella. She meets her old lover Wynn on board, rekindles their relationship and decides to end her marriage to be with him, even sending a telegram informing her husband. Then Wynn dies in the sinking and once in New York, she discovers that her husband never got the telegram, so [[KarmaHoudini she gets away scot free]].
** Also TruthInTelevision with Benjamin Guggenheim, who was traveling with his French mistress.

* AdaptationalDumbass: ''Carpathia'''s crew recovered only one body and then promptly buried it at sea because they were more concerned with rescuing and accommodating the traumatized survivors, yet in the miniseries Captain Rostron thinks it's perfectly acceptable to shock and traumatize the survivors further by laying out the corpses of their loved ones in the middle of an open deck and wasting valuable blankets and linens to cover up the bodies.

*** Fifth Officer Lowe yells at Ismay when he starts to panic, which did happen.