True story of the world's largest luxurious ocean liner, RMS Titanic, which set sail from England bound for New York in April 1912, but met with disaster when it met with a fatal collision with an iceburg en route, causing the loss of over 1500 lives.
Some regard this as the best version of the story.

See also James Cameron's Titanic (1997).

The definitive telling of Titanic's tale, because it relies on the simple facts, the scope and pathos of the tragedy, to tell the story, rather than hedging its bets by inserting a needless and treacly love story to grab the all too important teen ADD demographic. Sad that it makes Captain Lord and the Californian seem the villains of the piece, rather than Captain Smith's foolhardy bravado in plunging into an icefield at full speed, but that reflects the accepted wisdom of the day, and does not detract from the power of the film.