Titanic: The Movie

On April 10, 1912, a ship left England to sail to New York. At that time, it was the largest ship ever built. It was named Titanic, and the people who built it believed it would never sink. Four and a half days later, the Titanic was lying at the bottom of the ocean, and more than 1,500 of the passengers were dead. In the middle of the night, the ship had hit an iceberg. Just two hours and forty minutes later, it disappeared into the ice-cold water of the North Atlantic Ocean. The story of the Titanic and her first and only voyage has fascinated people ever since. Movie director James Cameron is one of these people. Using late-twentieth-century technology and a team of thousands, he brought the great ship to life on the big screen. An almost full-size model of the outside of the ship was built off the coast of Mexico. Huge machines were used to tilt the model to show how the ship went down. Just before the Titanic sank, the front of the ship went under the water. The inside of the ship was copied as carefully as the outside. Tables, chairs, lamps and carpets were just some of the thousands of things that were reproduced to match those on the original ship. The Titanic sailed only once, but its story lives on. Millions of people have been to see James Cameron’s Titanic, one of Hollywood’s most successful movies ever.