History Film / Titanic1997

The film was re-released in theaters on April 4th, 2012, in [[UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie 3D]], ten days before the 100th anniversary of the ''Titanic'''s sinking.

The film was re-released in theaters on April 4th, 2012, in [[ThreeDMovie 3D]], ten days before the 100th anniversary of the ''Titanic'''s sinking.

** (from a CutScene) Lewis: "Wait a minute. You were going to jump off the the ''Titanic''? All you had to do was wait two days!"
** (from a CutScene) Astor: "Right you are, Mr. [=McCauley=]. It is 700 miles to shore, so you wouldn't want to have anything to impede your stroke."
** (from a CutScene) Bride: "Maybe we should try that new distress call. S.O.S. It may be our only chance to use it."

* AwardBaitSong: "My Heart Will Go On". And James Horner had to wait for a proper moment to present it to the [[PrimaDonnaDirector hot]]-[[BadBoss headed]] James Cameron...

* FollowTheLeader: ''Film/PearlHarbor'', which has a similar romance-against-epic-tragedy-of-the-20th-century concept, and, like most following works, has almost no understanding of why it worked here. It works in both directions too--Cameron decided to make ''Titanic'' after seeing the 1958 movie ''Film/ANightToRemember'', to the extent that they have a ''lot'' of scenes in common.

** After he and his valet change into their best eveningwear to go down with the ship, Benjamin Guggenheim asks a steward for a brandy.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: The baker Charles Joughin, when he's clinging to the railing of the stern and has just watched a falling man ''bounce'' off the propeller, pulls out a hip flash and takes a hefty swig. (TruthInTelevision, as the real Joughin spent half the night helping people get off the ship and the other half getting drunk; against all the odds, all the booze in his system probably saved his life when he finally went into the water.)

* DisproportionateRestitution: Cal has Lovejoy offer Jack a token sum of cash for his assistance in preventing Rose falling off the ship's stern.
--> '''Cal''': I think a twenty should do it

** For all Rose's trials and tribulations aboard Titanic, the audience already knows she will survive.

* FlippingTheBird: Rose to Lovejoy, as she and Jack are escaping him in the elevator.

** HMS ''Birkenhead'' was a British warship transporting a battalion of infantry with the officers' wives and children to India when she struck a rock in shark-infested waters off South Africa. Prior to this event, a sinking ship was every man for himself. But as ''Birkenhead'' foundered with sharks visibly circling, her captain and the infantry battalion's commander quickly conferred, recognized the shortage of lifeboats, and agreed that the women and children must take priority. Each officer addressed their men, who maintained good order and discipline in the face of certain death. ''Birkenhead'' went down with horrifying loss of life, but every woman and child was saved. The practice of "women and children first" is officially known as "Birkenhead Drill" to this day.

** Guggenheim refuses a life jacket, saying [[BadassBoast "We are dressed in our best and prepared to go down like gentlemen]]. [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner But we will take a brandy."]] This really happened, too.

*** There are contradictory eyewitness accounts concerning the real Murdoch's fate, so it's possible that he really did commit suicide as depicted in the film. Murdoch's hometown steadfastly disagrees, of course, and celebrates Murdoch as a local hero. Second Officer Lightoller last saw Murdoch on the roof of the Officers' Quarters trying to deploy one of the collapsible boats by himself, and believed he was crushed when the forward funnel collapsed. The accounts of an officer shooting a passenger and then himself are contradictory, uncorroborated, and came from people who didn't know Murdoch from Adam.

** The couple portrayed holding each other in bed as the room floods was Isidor and Ida Straus, the founders and original owners of Macy's Department Stores. Ida refused to leave her husband when offered a lifeboat seat. They gave her seat to their maid, and remained on the ship together.

*** Jack knows his situation is fatal. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment he nods, twice -- as if setting in his mind the fact that he's not going to make it. He then turns his efforts into [[spoiler:keeping Rose hopeful (and as sane as can be in such a situation).]]

** ''Titanic'' was (partially) American-owned, but British-flagged (hence her "RMS" prefix, for "Royal Mail Steamer) and British-crewed. As such, she followed British Merchant Navy procedures, including "tiller" commands for steering, i.e. ordering "starboard" for a turn to port. Murdoch in the film (as in real life) recognizes that simply turning away will rip open the ship's entire starboard side. He orders a turn away from, then back towards, the iceberg while reversing the engines. This maneuver is called "porting round," is intended to swing the ship's stern away while only presenting the bow to the hazard, and is ''exactly'' the right move in that situation. Had the iceberg been spotted thirty seconds sooner, Murdoch would have saved the ship with survivable damage.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Cal ''tries'' to play this. Doesn't work. However, there's also a deleted scene of a possible RealLife case where a wealthy couple, Sir Cosmo and Lady Lucille Duff-Gordon, who were in that lifeboat with ''twelve people in it'', bribed the oarsmen to not go back and pick up survivors. In reality, though, the money they gave to the crewmen was to give them financial support after their rescue, as the sailors' salary was officially cut off at the time of the sinking, but [[KickTheDog they would still be held financially liable for all of their White Star-issued uniforms and gear]], plus they had lost most or all of their worldly possessions with the ship, so they were at far more of a loss financially than the wealthy Lord and Lady. Sir Cosmo actually [[PetTheDog promised to cover their losses to the company]], and he never raised any objection to rescuing others. The entire episode was a malicious tabloid rumor.

* StealthInsult: Common with Cal and Rose's mother towards Jack and people they consider lesser than themselves. An example is, upon seeing Jack in a suit, Cal mentions he could "almost pass for a gentleman". Jack, of course, turns it back at him just as stealthily: "Almost."

** HMS ''Birkenhead'' was a British warship transporting a battalion of infantry with the officers' wives and children to India when she struck a rock in shark-infested waters off South Africa. Prior to this event, a sinking ship was every man for himself. But as ''Birkenhead'' foundered with sharks visibly circling, her captain and the infantry battalion's commander quickly conferred, recognized the shortage of lifeboats, and agreed that the women and children must take priority. Each officer addressed their men, who maintained good order and discipline in the face of certain death. ''Birkenhead'' went down with horrifying loss of life, but every woman and child was saved. The practice of "women and children first" is officially known as "Birkenhead Drill" to this day.

** Guggenheim refuses a life jacket, saying [[BadassBoast "We are dressed in our best and prepared to go down like gentlemen]]. [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner But we will take a brandy."]] This really happened, too.

*** There are contradictory eyewitness accounts concerning the real Murdoch's fate, so it's possible that he really did commit suicide as depicted in the film. Murdoch's hometown steadfastly disagrees, of course, and celebrates Murdoch as a local hero. Second Officer Lightoller last saw Murdoch on the roof of the Officers' Quarters trying to deploy one of the collapsible boats by himself, and believed he was crushed when the forward funnel collapsed. The accounts of an officer shooting a passenger and then himself are contradictory, uncorroborated, and came from people who didn't know Murdoch from Adam.

** The couple portrayed holding each other in bed as the room floods was Isidor and Ida Straus, the founders and original owners of Macy's Department Stores. Ida refused to leave her husband when offered a lifeboat seat. They gave her seat to their maid, and remained on the ship together.

*** Jack knows his situation is fatal. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment he nods, twice -- as if setting in his mind the fact that he's not going to make it. He then turns his efforts into [[spoiler:keeping Rose hopeful (and as sane as can be in such a situation).]]

** ''Titanic'' was (partially) American-owned, but British-flagged (hence her "RMS" prefix, for "Royal Mail Steamer) and British-crewed. As such, she followed British Merchant Navy procedures, including "tiller" commands for steering, i.e. ordering "starboard" for a turn to port. Murdoch in the film (as in real life) recognizes that simply turning away will rip open the ship's entire starboard side. He orders a turn away from, then back towards, the iceberg while reversing the engines. This maneuver is called "porting round," is intended to swing the ship's stern away while only presenting the bow to the hazard, and is ''exactly'' the right move in that situation. Had the iceberg been spotted thirty seconds sooner, Murdoch would have saved the ship with survivable damage.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Cal ''tries'' to play this. Doesn't work. However, there's also a deleted scene of a possible RealLife case where a wealthy couple, Sir Cosmo and Lady Lucille Duff-Gordon, who were in that lifeboat with ''twelve people in it'', bribed the oarsmen to not go back and pick up survivors. In reality, though, the money they gave to the crewmen was to give them financial support after their rescue, as the sailors' salary was officially cut off at the time of the sinking, but [[KickTheDog they would still be held financially liable for all of their White Star-issued uniforms and gear, plus they had lost most or all of their worldly possessions with the ship, so they were at far more of a loss financially than the wealthy Lord and Lady. Sir Cosmo actually [[PetTheDog promised to cover their losses to the company]], and he never raised any objection to rescuing others. The entire episode was a malicious tabloid rumor.

** HMS ''Birkenhead'' was a British warship transporting a battalion of infantry with the officers' wives and children to India when she struck a rock in shark-infested waters off South Africa. Prior to this event, a sinking ship was every man for himself. But as ''Birkenhead'' foundered with sharks visibly circling, her captain and the infantry battalion's commander quickly conferred, recognized the shortage of lifeboats, and agreed that the women and children must take priority. Each officer addressed their men, who maintained good order and discipline in the face of certain death. ''Birkenhead'' went down with horrifying loss of life, but every woman and child was saved. The practice of "women and children first" is officially known as "Birkenhead Drill" to this day.

** Guggenheim refuses a life jacket, saying [[BadassBoast "We are dressed in our best and prepared to go down like gentlemen]]. [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner But we will take a brandy."]] This really happened, too.

*** There are contradictory eyewitness accounts concerning the real Murdoch's fate, so it's possible that he really did commit suicide as depicted in the film. Murdoch's hometown steadfastly disagrees, of course, and celebrates Murdoch as a local hero. Second Officer Lightoller last saw Murdoch on the roof of the Officers' Quarters trying to deploy one of the collapsible boats by himself, and believed he was crushed when the forward funnel collapsed. The accounts of an officer shooting a passenger and then himself are contradictory, uncorroborated, and came from people who didn't know Murdoch from Adam.

** The couple portrayed holding each other in bed as the room floods was Isidor and Ida Straus, the founders and original owners of Macy's Department Stores. Ida refused to leave her husband when offered a lifeboat seat. They gave her seat to their maid, and remained on the ship together.

*** Jack knows his situation is fatal. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment he nods, twice -- as if setting in his mind the fact that he's not going to make it. He then turns his efforts into [[spoiler:keeping Rose hopeful (and as sane as can be in such a situation).]]

** ''Titanic'' was (partially) American-owned, but British-flagged (hence her "RMS" prefix, for "Royal Mail Steamer) and British-crewed. As such, she followed British Merchant Navy procedures, including "tiller" commands for steering, i.e. ordering "starboard" for a turn to port. Murdoch in the film (as in real life) recognizes that simply turning away will rip open the ship's entire starboard side. He orders a turn away from, then back towards, the iceberg while reversing the engines. This maneuver is called "porting round," is intended to swing the ship's stern away while only presenting the bow to the hazard, and is ''exactly'' the right move in that situation. Had the iceberg been spotted thirty seconds sooner, Murdoch would have saved the ship with survivable damage.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Cal ''tries'' to play this. Doesn't work. However, there's also a deleted scene of a possible RealLife case where a wealthy couple, Sir Cosmo and Lady Lucille Duff-Gordon, who were in that lifeboat with ''twelve people in it'', bribed the oarsmen to not go back and pick up survivors. In reality, though, the money they gave to the crew was to give them financial support after their rescue, as the crewmembers were at far more of a loss financially than the wealthy Lord and Lady (these crewmen had lost almost all of their possessions when the ship went down).

** HMS ''Birkenhead'' was a British warship transporting a battalion of infantry with the officers' wives and children to India when she struck a rock in shark-infested waters off South Africa. Prior to this event, a sinking ship was every man for himself. But as ''Birkenhead'' foundered with sharks visibly circling, her captain and the infantry battalion's commander quickly conferred, recognized the shortage of lifeboats, and agreed that the women and children must take priority. Each officer addressed their men, who maintained good order and discipline in the face of certain death. ''Birkenhead'' went down with horrifying loss of life, but every woman and child was saved. The practice of "women and children first" is officially known as "Birkenhead Drill" to this day.

** Guggenheim refuses a life jacket, saying [[BadassBoast "We are dressed in our best and prepared to go down like gentlemen]]. [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner But we will take a brandy."]] This really happened, too.

*** There are contradictory eyewitness accounts concerning the real Murdoch's fate, so it's possible that he really did commit suicide as depicted in the film. Murdoch's hometown steadfastly disagrees, of course, and celebrates Murdoch as a local hero. Second Officer Lightoller last saw Murdoch on the roof of the Officers' Quarters trying to deploy one of the collapsible boats by himself, and believed he was crushed when the forward funnel collapsed. The accounts of an officer shooting a passenger and then himself are contradictory, uncorroborated, and came from people who didn't know Murdoch from Adam.

** The couple portrayed holding each other in bed as the room floods was Isidor and Ida Straus, the founders and original owners of Macy's Department Stores. Ida refused to leave her husband when offered a lifeboat seat. They gave her seat to their maid, and remained on the ship together.

*** Jack knows his situation is fatal. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment he nods, twice -- as if setting in his mind the fact that he's not going to make it. He then turns his efforts into [[spoiler:keeping Rose hopeful (and as sane as can be in such a situation).]]

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: There are Irish characters in this film. And you will be in stitches when they start talking. A more literal example occurs with the elevator operator; he fakes a British accent when talking to Rose, and is revealed to actually have an Irish accent as he panics.

** HMS ''Birkenhead'' was a British warship transporting a battalion of infantry with the officers' wives and children to India when she struck a rock in shark-infested waters off South Africa. Prior to this event, a sinking ship was every man for himself. But as ''Birkenhead'' foundered with sharks visibly circling, her captain and the infantry battalion's commander quickly conferred, recognized the shortage of lifeboats, and agreed that the women and children must take priority. Each officer addressed their men, who maintained good order and discipline in the face of certain death. ''Birkenhead'' went down with horrifying loss of life, but every woman and child was saved. The practice of "women and children first" is officially known as "Birkenhead Drill" to this day.

** Guggenheim refuses a life jacket, saying [[BadassBoast "We are dressed in our best and prepared to go down like gentlemen]]. [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner But we will take a brandy."]] This really happened, too.

*** There are contradictory eyewitness accounts concerning the real Murdoch's fate, so it's possible that he really did commit suicide as depicted in the film. Murdoch's hometown steadfastly disagrees, of course, and celebrates Murdoch as a local hero. Second Officer Lightoller last saw Murdoch on the roof of the Officers' Quarters trying to deploy one of the collapsible boats by himself, and believed he was crushed when the forward funnel collapsed. The accounts of an officer shooting a passenger and then himself are contradictory, uncorroborated, and came from people who didn't know Murdoch from Adam.

** The couple portrayed holding each other in bed as the room floods was Isidor and Ida Straus, the founders and original owners of Macy's Department Stores. Ida refused to leave her husband when offered a lifeboat seat. They gave her seat to their maid, and remained on the ship together.

*** Jack knows his situation is fatal. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment he nods, twice -- as if setting in his mind the fact that he's not going to make it. He then turns his efforts into [[spoiler:keeping Rose hopeful (and as sane as can be in such a situation).]]

** HMS ''Birkenhead'' was a British warship transporting a battalion of infantry with the officers' wives and children to India when she struck a rock in shark-infested waters off South Africa. Prior to this event, a sinking ship was every man for himself. But as ''Birkenhead'' foundered with sharks visibly circling, her captain and the infantry battalion's commander quickly conferred, recognized the shortage of lifeboats, and agreed that the women and children must take priority. Each officer addressed their men, who maintained good order and discipline in the face of certain death. ''Birkenhead'' went down with horrifying loss of life, but every woman and child was saved. The practice of "women and children first" is officially known as "Birkenhead Drill" to this day.

** Guggenheim refuses a life jacket, saying [[BadassBoast "We are dressed in our best and prepared to go down like gentlemen]]. [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner But we will take a brandy."]] This really happened, too.

*** There are contradictory eyewitness accounts concerning the real Murdoch's fate, so it's possible that he really did commit suicide as depicted in the film. Murdoch's hometown steadfastly disagrees, of course, and celebrates Murdoch as a local hero. Second Officer Lightoller last saw Murdoch on the roof of the Officers' Quarters trying to deploy one of the collapsible boats by himself, and believed he was crushed when the forward funnel collapsed. The accounts of an officer shooting a passenger and then himself are contradictory, uncorroborated, and came from people who didn't know Murdoch from Adam.

** The couple portrayed holding each other in bed as the room floods was Isidor and Ida Straus, the founders and original owners of Macy's Department Stores. Ida refused to leave her husband when offered a lifeboat seat. They gave her seat to their maid, and remained on the ship together.

*** Jack knows his situation is fatal. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment he nods, twice -- as if setting in his mind the fact that he's not going to make it. He then turns his efforts into [[spoiler:keeping Rose hopeful (and as sane as can be in such a situation).]]

** J. Bruce Ismay is shown displaying total disregard for safety by pushing for a speed record ''the White Star Line already knew it couldn't win''. The entire purpose of the three massive luxury ships--the ''Olympic'', the ''Titanic'', and the ''Britannic''--was to beat Cunard and other rivals when it came to luxury and technological novelties (and even ''that's'' subjective), not speed, as they knew they couldn't beat the ''Lusitania'' and the ''Mauretania'' on speed. Arriving early would have led not to applause but to both complaints from passengers, whose hotel reservations were for the following day, and annoyance from the New York customs. It should, therefore, surprise nobody that the whole speed thing is fiction.

** HMS ''Birkenhead'' was a British warship transporting a battalion of infantry with the officers' wives and children to India when she struck a rock in shark-infested waters off South Africa. Prior to this event, a sinking ship was every man for himself. But as ''Birkenhead'' foundered with sharks visibly circling, her captain and the infantry battalion's commander quickly conferred, recognized the shortage of lifeboats, and agreed that the women and children must take priority. Each officer addressed their men, who maintained good order and discipline in the face of certain death. ''Birkenhead'' went down with horrifying loss of life, but every woman and child was saved. The practice of "women and children first" is officially known as "Birkenhead Drill" to this day.

** Guggenheim refuses a life jacket, saying [[BadassBoast "We are dressed in our best and prepared to go down like gentlemen]]. [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner But we will take a brandy."]] This really happened, too.

*** There are contradictory eyewitness accounts concerning the real Murdoch's fate, so it's possible that he really did commit suicide as depicted in the film. Murdoch's hometown steadfastly disagrees, of course, and celebrates Murdoch as a local hero. Second Officer Lightoller last saw Murdoch on the roof of the Officers' Quarters trying to deploy one of the collapsible boats by himself, and believed he was crushed when the forward funnel collapsed. The accounts of an officer shooting a passenger and then himself are contradictory, uncorroborated, and came from people who didn't know Murdoch from Adam.

** The couple portrayed holding each other in bed as the room floods was Isidor and Ida Straus, the founders and original owners of Macy's Department Stores. Ida refused to leave her husband when offered a lifeboat seat. They gave her seat to their maid, and remained on the ship together.

*** Jack knows his situation is fatal. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment he nods, twice -- as if setting in his mind the fact that he's not going to make it. He then turns his efforts into [[spoiler:keeping Rose hopeful (and as sane as can be in such a situation).]]

*** This was apparently a reaction (overreaction?) to his heroic portrayal in ''A Night to Remember'' (it is sometimes said that this was because Lightoller himself was an adviser to ''ANTR'', but he actually died a few years before that film; the adviser was Fourth Officer Boxhall, who is not named in Cameron's film).

** HMS ''Birkenhead'' was a British warship transporting a battalion of infantry with the officers' wives and children to India when she struck a rock in shark-infested waters off South Africa. Prior to this event, a sinking ship was every man for himself. But as ''Birkenhead'' foundered with sharks visibly circling, her captain and the infantry battalion's commander quickly conferred, recognized the shortage of lifeboats, and agreed that the women and children must take priority. Each officer addressed their men, who maintained good order and discipline in the face of certain death. ''Birkenhead'' went down with horrifying loss of life, but every woman and child was saved. The practice of "women and children first" is officially known as "Birkenhead Drill" to this day.

** Guggenheim refuses a life jacket, saying [[BadassBoast "We are dressed in our best and prepared to go down like gentlemen]]. [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner But we will take a brandy."]] This really happened, too.

*** There are contradictory eyewitness accounts concerning the real Murdoch's fate, so it's possible that he really did commit suicide as depicted in the film. Murdoch's hometown steadfastly disagrees, of course, and celebrates Murdoch as a local hero. Second Officer Lightoller last saw Murdoch on the roof of the Officers' Quarters trying to deploy one of the collapsible boats by himself, and believed he was crushed when the forward funnel collapsed. The accounts of an officer shooting a passenger and then himself are contradictory, uncorroborated, and came from people who didn't know Murdoch from Adam.

** The couple portrayed holding each other in bed as the room floods was Isidor and Ida Straus, the founders and original owners of Macy's Department Stores. Ida refused to leave her husband when offered a lifeboat seat. They gave her seat to their maid, and remained on the ship together.

*** Jack knows his situation is fatal. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment he nods, twice -- as if setting in his mind the fact that he's not going to make it. He then turns his efforts into [[spoiler:keeping Rose hopeful (and as sane as can be in such a situation).]]

** First Officer William Murdoch goes from an upstanding officer who was still trying to launch a lifeboat (a job for twelve men) by himself when he died to accepting bribes, shooting two men trying to rush the lifeboats, and then shooting himself in remorse. [[{{Understatement}} His family were not amused]].

** HMS ''Birkenhead'' was a British warship transporting a battalion of infantry with the officers' wives and children to India when she struck a rock in shark-infested waters off South Africa. Prior to this event, a sinking ship was every man for himself. But as ''Birkenhead'' foundered with sharks visibly circling, her captain and the infantry battalion's commander quickly conferred, recognized the shortage of lifeboats, and agreed that the women and children must take priority. Each officer addressed their men, who maintained good order and discipline in the face of certain death. ''Birkenhead'' went down with horrifying loss of life, but every woman and child was saved. The practice of "women and children first" is officially known as "Birkenhead Drill" to this day.

** Guggenheim refuses a life jacket, saying [[BadassBoast "We are dressed in our best and prepared to go down like gentlemen]]. [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner But we will take a brandy."]] This really happened, too.

*** There are contradictory eyewitness accounts concerning the real Murdoch's fate, so it's possible that he really did commit suicide as depicted in the film. Murdoch's hometown steadfastly disagrees, of course, and celebrates Murdoch as a local hero. Second Officer Lightoller last saw Murdoch on the roof of the Officers' Quarters trying to deploy one of the collapsible boats by himself, and believed he was crushed when the forward funnel collapsed. The accounts of an officer shooting a passenger and then himself are contradictory, uncorroborated, and came from people who didn't know Murdoch from Adam.

** The couple portrayed holding each other in bed as the room floods was Isidor and Ida Straus, the founders and original owners of Macy's Department Stores. Ida refused to leave her husband when offered a lifeboat seat. They gave her seat to their maid, and remained on the ship together.

*** Jack knows his situation is fatal. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment he nods, twice -- as if setting in his mind the fact that he's not going to make it. He then turns his efforts into [[spoiler:keeping Rose hopeful (and as sane as can be in such a situation).]]

** First Officer William Murdoch goes from an upstanding officer who was still trying to launch a lifeboat (a job for twelve men) by himself when he died to shooting two men trying to rush the lifeboats and shooting himself in remorse. [[{{Understatement}} His family were not amused]].

** HMS ''Birkenhead'' was a British warship transporting a battalion of infantry with the officers' wives and children to India when she struck a rock in shark-infested waters off South Africa. Prior to this event, a sinking ship was every man for himself. But as ''Birkenhead'' foundered with sharks visibly circling, her captain and the infantry battalion's commander quickly conferred, recognized the shortage of lifeboats, and agreed that the women and children must take priority. Each officer addressed their men, who maintained good order and discipline in the face of certain death. ''Birkenhead'' went down with horrifying loss of life, but every woman and child was saved. The practice of "women and children first" is officially known as "Birkenhead Drill" to this day.

** Guggenheim refuses a life jacket, saying [[BadassBoast "We are dressed in our best and prepared to go down like gentlemen]]. [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner But we will take a brandy."]] This really happened, too.

*** There are contradictory eyewitness accounts concerning the real Murdoch's fate, so it's possible that he really did commit suicide as depicted in the film. Murdoch's hometown steadfastly disagrees, of course, and celebrates Murdoch as a local hero. Second Officer Lightoller last saw Murdoch on the roof of the Officers' Quarters trying to deploy one of the collapsible boats by himself, and believed he was crushed when the forward funnel collapsed. The accounts of an officer shooting a passenger and then himself are contradictory, uncorroborated, and came from people who didn't know Murdoch from Adam.

** The couple portrayed holding each other in bed as the room floods was Isidor and Ida Straus, the founders and original owners of Macy's Department Stores. Ida refused to leave her husband when offered a lifeboat seat. They gave her seat to their maid, and remained on the ship together.

*** Jack knows his situation is fatal. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment he nods, twice -- as if setting in his mind the fact that he's not going to make it. He then turns his efforts into [[spoiler:keeping Rose hopeful (and as sane as can be in such a situation).]]

** First Officer William Murdoch goes from an upstanding officer to shooting two men trying to rush the lifeboats and shooting himself in remorse. His family were not amused.

** HMS ''Birkenhead'' was a British warship transporting a battalion of infantry with the officers' wives and children to India when she struck a rock in shark-infested waters off South Africa. Prior to this event, a sinking ship was every man for himself. But as ''Birkenhead'' foundered with sharks visibly circling, her captain and the infantry battalion's commander quickly conferred, recognized the shortage of lifeboats, and agreed that the women and children must take priority. Each officer addressed their men, who maintained good order and discipline in the face of certain death. ''Birkenhead'' went down with horrifying loss of life, but every woman and child was saved. The practice of "women and children first" is officially known as "Birkenhead Drill" to this day.

** Guggenheim refuses a life jacket, saying [[BadassBoast "We are dressed in our best and prepared to go down like gentlemen]]. [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner But we will take a brandy."]] This really happened, too.

*** There are contradictory eyewitness accounts concerning the real Murdoch's fate, so it's possible that he really did commit suicide as depicted in the film. Murdoch's hometown steadfastly disagrees, of course, and celebrates Murdoch as a local hero. Second Officer Lightoller last saw Murdoch on the roof of the Officers' Quarters trying to deploy one of the collapsible boats by himself, and believed he was crushed when the forward funnel collapsed. The accounts of an officer shooting a passenger and then himself are contradictory, uncorroborated, and came from people who didn't know Murdoch from Adam.

** The couple portrayed holding each other in bed as the room floods was Isidor and Ida Straus, the founders and original owners of Macy's Department Stores. Ida refused to leave her husband when offered a lifeboat seat. They gave her seat to their maid, and remained on the ship together.

*** Jack knows his situation is fatal. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment he nods, twice -- as if setting in his mind the fact that he's not going to make it. He then turns his efforts into [[spoiler:keeping Rose hopeful (and as sane as can be in such a situation).]]

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[CaptainObvious Many]]. There is the Unsinkable Molly Brown, Captain Smith and the rest of the officers, Ismay, Andrews, Gracy, J.J. Astor, the band, the Countess of Rothes...

** HMS ''Birkenhead'' was a British warship transporting a battalion of infantry with the officers' wives and children to India when she struck a rock in shark-infested waters off South Africa. Prior to this event, a sinking ship was every man for himself. But as ''Birkenhead'' foundered with sharks visibly circling, her captain and the infantry battalion's commander quickly conferred, recognized the shortage of lifeboats, and agreed that the women and children must take priority. Each officer addressed their men, who maintained good order and discipline in the face of certain death. ''Birkenhead'' went down with horrifying loss of life, but every woman and child was saved. The practice of "women and children first" is officially known as "Birkenhead Drill" to this day.

** Guggenheim refuses a life jacket, saying [[BadassBoast "We are dressed in our best and prepared to go down like gentlemen]]. [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner But we will take a brandy."]] This really happened, too.

*** There are contradictory eyewitness accounts concerning the real Murdoch's fate, so it's possible that he really did commit suicide as depicted in the film. Murdoch's hometown steadfastly disagrees, of course, and celebrates Murdoch as a local hero. Second Officer Lightoller last saw Murdoch on the roof of the Officers' Quarters trying to deploy one of the collapsible boats by himself, and believed he was crushed when the forward funnel collapsed. The accounts of an officer shooting a passenger and then himself are contradictory, uncorroborated, and came from people who didn't know Murdoch from Adam.

** The couple portrayed holding each other in bed as the room floods was Isidor and Ida Straus, the founders and original owners of Macy's Department Stores. Ida refused to leave her husband when offered a lifeboat seat. They gave her seat to their maid, and remained on the ship together.

*** Jack knows his situation is fatal. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment he nods, twice -- as if setting in his mind the fact that he's not going to make it. He then turns his efforts into [[spoiler:keeping Rose hopeful (and as sane as can be in such a situation).]]

*** The engineers also kept her trimmed laterally--she's the ''only'' liner to go down nearly level. This allowed all of her boats to be used. ''Andrea Doria'' wasn't so lucky: she rolled over, making half her boats useless.

** HMS ''Birkenhead'' was a British warship transporting a battalion of infantry with the officers' wives and children to India when she struck a rock in shark-infested waters off South Africa. Prior to this event, a sinking ship was every man for himself. But as ''Birkenhead'' foundered with sharks visibly circling, her captain and the infantry battalion's commander quickly conferred, recognized the shortage of lifeboats, and agreed that the women and children must take priority. Each officer addressed their men, who maintained good order and discipline in the face of certain death. ''Birkenhead'' went down with horrifying loss of life, but every woman and child was saved. The practice of "women and children first" is officially known as "Birkenhead Drill" to this day.

** Guggenheim refuses a life jacket, saying [[BadassBoast "We are dressed in our best and prepared to go down like gentlemen]]. [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner But we will take a brandy."]] This really happened, too.

*** There are contradictory eyewitness accounts concerning the real Murdoch's fate, so it's possible that he really did commit suicide as depicted in the film. Murdoch's hometown steadfastly disagrees, of course, and celebrates Murdoch as a local hero. Second Officer Lightoller last saw Murdoch on the roof of the Officers' Quarters trying to deploy one of the collapsible boats by himself, and believed he was crushed when the forward funnel collapsed. The accounts of an officer shooting a passenger and then himself are contradictory, uncorroborated, and came from people who didn't know Murdoch from Adam.

** The couple portrayed holding each other in bed as the room floods was Isidor and Ida Straus, the founders and original owners of Macy's Department Stores. Ida refused to leave her husband when offered a lifeboat seat. They gave her seat to their maid, and remained on the ship together.

** Ship designer Thomas Andrews, having apologized to Rose for "not building you a stronger ship", stands alone in the stateroom and had taken off his life vest. He takes a moment to adjust with almost loving gentleness a timepiece on the mantle. Based on real-life account of a witness who last saw Andrews in the stateroom just staring at a clock as the ''Titanic'' reached its death throes.

*** Jack knows his situation is fatal. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment he nods, twice -- as if setting in his mind the fact that he's not going to make it. He then turns his efforts into [[spoiler:keeping Rose hopeful (and as sane as can be in such a situation).]]

** HMS ''Birkenhead'' was a British warship transporting a battalion of infantry with the officers' wives and children to India when she struck a rock in shark-infested waters off South Africa. Prior to this event, a sinking ship was every man for himself. But as ''Birkenhead'' foundered with sharks visibly circling, her captain and the infantry battalion's commander quickly conferred, recognized the shortage of lifeboats, and agreed that the women and children must take priority. Each officer addressed their men, who maintained good order and discipline in the face of certain death. ''Birkenhead'' went down with horrifying loss of life, but every woman and child was saved. The practice of "women and children first" is officially known as "Birkenhead Drill" to this day.

** Guggenheim refuses a life jacket, saying [[BadassBoast "We are dressed in our best and prepared to go down like gentlemen]]. [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner But we will take a brandy."]] This really happened, too.

*** There are contradictory eyewitness accounts concerning the real Murdoch's fate, so it's possible that he really did commit suicide as depicted in the film. Murdoch's hometown steadfastly disagrees, of course, and celebrates Murdoch as a local hero. Second Officer Lightoller last saw Murdoch on the roof of the Officers' Quarters trying to deploy one of the collapsible boats by himself, and believed he was crushed when the forward funnel collapsed. The accounts of an officer shooting a passenger and then himself are contradictory, uncorroborated, and came from people who didn't know Murdoch from Adam.

** The couple portrayed holding each other in bed as the room floods was Isidor and Ida Straus, the founders and original owners of Macy's Department Stores. Ida refused to leave her husband when offered a lifeboat seat. They gave her seat to their maid, and remained on the ship together.

** Tommy: "Music to drown by. Now I know I'm in first-class."

*** Jack knows his situation is fatal. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment he nods, twice -- as if setting in his mind the fact that he's not going to make it. He then turns his efforts into [[spoiler:keeping Rose hopeful (and as sane as can be in such a situation).]]

** HMS ''Birkenhead'' was a British warship transporting a battalion of infantry with the officers' wives and children to India when she struck a rock in shark-infested waters off South Africa. Prior to this event, a sinking ship was every man for himself. But as ''Birkenhead'' foundered with sharks visibly circling, her captain and the infantry battalion's commander quickly conferred, recognized the shortage of lifeboats, and agreed that the women and children must take priority. Each officer addressed their men, who maintained good order and discipline in the face of certain death. ''Birkenhead'' went down with horrifying loss of life, but every woman and child was saved. The practice of "women and children first" is officially known as "Birkenhead Drill" to this day.

** Guggenheim refuses a life jacket, saying [[BadassBoast "We are dressed in our best and prepared to go down like gentlemen]]. [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner But we will take a brandy."]] This really happened, too.

*** There are contradictory eyewitness accounts concerning the real Murdoch's fate, so it's possible that he really did commit suicide as depicted in the film. Murdoch's hometown steadfastly disagrees, of course, and celebrates Murdoch as a local hero. Second Officer Lightoller last saw Murdoch on the roof of the Officers' Quarters trying to deploy one of the collapsible boats by himself, and believed he was crushed when the forward funnel collapsed. The accounts of an officer shooting a passenger and then himself are contradictory, uncorroborated, and came from people who didn't know Murdoch from Adam.

** The couple portrayed holding each other in bed as the room floods was Isidor and Ida Straus. Ida refused to leave her husband when offered a lifeboat seat. They gave her seat to their maid, and remained on the ship together.

*** Jack knows his situation is fatal. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment he nods, twice -- as if setting in his mind the fact that he's not going to make it. He then turns his efforts into [[spoiler:keeping Rose hopeful (and as sane as can be in such a situation).]]

** HMS ''Birkenhead'' was a British warship transporting a battalion of infantry with the officers' wives and children to India when she struck a rock in shark-infested waters off South Africa. Prior to this event, a sinking ship was every man for himself. But as ''Birkenhead'' foundered with sharks visibly circling, her captain and the infantry battalion's commander quickly conferred, recognized the shortage of lifeboats, and agreed that the women and children must take priority. Each officer addressed their men, who maintained good order and discipline in the face of certain death. ''Birkenhead'' went down with horrifying loss of life, but every woman and child was saved. The practice of "women and children first" is officially known as "Birkenhead Drill" to this day.

** Guggenheim refuses a life jacket, saying [[BadassBoast "We are dressed in our best and prepared to go down like gentlemen]]. [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner But we will take a brandy."]] This really happened, too.

*** There are contradictory eyewitness accounts concerning the real Murdoch's fate, so it's possible that he really did commit suicide as depicted in the film. Murdoch's hometown steadfastly disagrees, of course, and celebrates Murdoch as a local hero. Second Officer Lightoller last saw Murdoch on the roof of the Officers' Quarters trying to deploy one of the collapsible boats by himself, and believed he was crushed when the forward funnel collapsed. The accounts of an officer shooting a passenger and then himself are contradictory, uncorroborated, and came from people who didn't know Murdoch from Adam.

* EmpathyDollShot: One of the Mirs spots a doll's head in the debris field. Inspired by Robert Ballard's account of Alvin coming across a doll's head during their explanation of the wreck.

*** Jack knows his situation is fatal. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment he nods, twice -- as if setting in his mind the fact that he's not going to make it. He then turns his efforts into [[spoiler:keeping Rose hopeful (and as sane as can be in such a situation).]]

** HMS ''Birkenhead'' was a British warship transporting a battalion of infantry with the officers' wives and children to India when she struck a rock in shark-infested waters off South Africa. Prior to this event, a sinking ship was every man for himself. But as ''Birkenhead'' foundered with sharks visibly circling, her captain and the infantry battalion's commander quickly conferred, recognized the shortage of lifeboats, and agreed that the women and children must take priority. Each officer addressed their men, who maintained good order and discipline in the face of certain death. ''Birkenhead'' went down with horrifying loss of life, but every woman and child was saved. The practice of "women and children first" is officially known as "Birkenhead Drill" to this day.

* DressingToDie: Some of the men are seen returning to their rooms to change into their formal suits when they realise that they're going down with the ship. The captain also goes to put on his Captain's hat and jacket, parts of the official regalia not usually worn when actually captaining a ship but for ceremonial purposes, when he chooses to stay on the bridge.

*** There are contradictory eyewitness accounts concerning the real Murdoch's fate, so it's possible that he really did commit suicide as depicted in the film. Murdoch's hometown steadfastly disagrees, of course, and celebrates Murdoch as a local hero.

*** Jack knows his situation is fatal. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment he nods, twice -- as if setting in his mind the fact that he's not going to make it. He then turns his efforts into [[spoiler:keeping Rose hopeful (and as sane as can be in such a situation).]]

* DoubleStandard: A historically-accurate one--if you were on the ''Titanic'', you had a Y chromosome, and you weren't a big-shot, [[MenAreTheExpendableGender you were more likely to be summarily left behind to go down with the ship]], even if there was room for you in the lifeboats (not that things were all that much better for big-shots with Y chromosomes, mind you; only a third of the men in first-class survived; the number of surviving third-class women was much larger). Precedent for this practice had been globally set by the sinking of the HMS ''Birkenhead'' in 1845, 67 years before the ''Titanic'''s maiden voyage, although the latter would become the most famous example.