Titanic (1997)
Titanic is a 1997 drama movie directed by James Cameron, with a running time of 3h 14m. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet and Billy Zane.
In 1996, a salvage crew hunting for a diamond pulls up a drawing instead, and 101-year-old Rose begins to talk. Her story rewinds to 1912 and the maiden voyage of the largest ship ever built, where she boarded in first class, engaged to a man she did not love. Jack, a drifter who won his ticket in a card game, meets her at the rail. James Cameron threads a sweeping romance through a meticulous recreation of the doomed liner, class lines and all, and builds toward the cold Atlantic night everyone already knows is coming.
Quick answers
What is Titanic about?
In 1996, a salvage crew hunting for a diamond pulls up a drawing instead, and 101-year-old Rose begins to talk. Her story rewinds to 1912 and the maiden voyage of the largest ship ever built, where she boarded in first class, engaged to a man she did not love. Jack, a drifter who won his ticket in a card game, meets her at the rail. James Cameron threads a sweeping romance through a meticulous recreation of the doomed liner, class lines and all, and builds toward the cold Atlantic night everyone already knows is coming.
When was Titanic released?
Titanic was released on 18 December 1997.
How long is Titanic?
Titanic runs 3h 14m.
Who made Titanic?
Titanic was directed by James Cameron.
Where can I watch Titanic?
Titanic is available on DirecTV On Demand, Paramount Plus, Paramount+ (Via Amazon Prime), YouTube TV, fuboTV and Pluto TV.
Where to watch Titanic
Stream: DirecTV On Demand, Paramount Plus, Paramount+ (Via Amazon Prime), YouTube TV, fuboTV
Watch free: Pluto TV
Rent: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home, FlixFling, Google Play, Spectrum On Demand
Buy: Fandango at Home, Google Play
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Cast
- Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson
- Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater
- Billy Zane as Cal Hockley
- Kathy Bates as Molly Brown
- Frances Fisher as Ruth DeWitt Bukater
- Gloria Stuart as Old Rose
- Bill Paxton as Brock Lovett
- Bernard Hill as Captain Smith
- David Warner as Spicer Lovejoy
- Victor Garber as Thomas Andrews
- Jonathan Hyde as Bruce Ismay
- Suzy Amis as Lizzy Calvert
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A few thoughts on Titanic
James Horner's score, capped by Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On, rebuilds the film's longing in sound alone and is worth an unhurried listen. If the Edwardian class divide is what holds you, Downton Abbey moves the same upstairs-and-below-stairs tension into a great English house, where romance, servants, and old money all come under strain.
Real movies about an ocean liner actually going down
James Cameron rebuilds the Titanic's final night with obsessive, plank-by-plank accuracy, and that same drive to dramatize a real ship's last hours runs through A Night to Remember, the 1953 Titanic, and The Poseidon Adventure and its remake Poseidon. Adrift brings the same true-survival stakes to a single small boat lost at sea.
Sweeping romances that span decades or defy class lines
Rose and Jack fall for each other despite every reason they shouldn't, and that same doomed, decades-or-class-spanning intensity powers Doctor Zhivago's revolution-torn love story, The Notebook's lifelong devotion, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button's backward life, Romeo and Juliet's warring families and Love in the Time of Cholera's decades-long wait. The Last Letter from Your Lover finds it hiding inside an old, unsent note.
Class lines drawn tight enough to break a romance
Rose's engagement to Cal is a transaction her family needs and her heart never wanted, the same rigid social math that boxes in Downton Abbey's aristocrats and staff, Ship of Fools' shipboard class system, Jude's thwarted ambitions, The Sleeping Dictionary's colonial hierarchy and Mrs. Miniver's wartime social order. Love, in each one, has to fight the seating chart.
Lavish historical epics built around a real time and place
Titanic rebuilds 1912 down to the rivets and the orchestra, and that same commitment to a real, fully dressed historical moment powers San Francisco's account of the 1906 earthquake, The Greatest Show on Earth's circus world, 55 Days at Peking's Boxer Rebellion siege and The Legend of Suriyothai's 16th-century Siam. Fat Man and Little Boy brings the same scale to the Manhattan Project.