• Director: James Cameron
  • Release Year: 1997
  • Production Country: United States
  • Language: English, French, German, Swedish, Italian, Russian

Titanic

Description

Traveling with her socially ambitious mother and her wealthy fiance, a bored and unhappy Rose deWitt boards the Titanic for its maiden voyage across the Atlantic; however, after the ship has sailed, the young woman casts her lot in with a young ne'er-do-well from the lower class only to find out that tragedy strikes indeterminately at both the wealthy and the poor.

Themes

RMS Titanic, Margaret Brown (1867 – 1932), Thomas Andrews Jr. (1873 – 1912), Captain Edward John Smith (1850 – 1912), Popular memory, Class conflicts, Poverty, Immigration, Social classes, Family relationships, Tradition and culture, Legends and mythologies, Maritime history