RMS Titanic
"They saw in the accident the symbol of the apogee of the industrial revolution and a condemnation of the arrogance of an era."
The sinking of the Titanic was one of the turning points of the 20th Century which foretold of things to come. Now part of the collective lore, the Titanic shipwreck has inspired countless authors and movie makers.
Here is a small partial list of novels and movies with the Titanic as a plot element.
Movies
| 1912 | Saved from the Titanic | Directed by : Étienne Arnaud Produced by : Harry Raver Studio : Eclair Moving Picture Company Black and white, silent |
| 1943 | Titanic | Directed by : Werner Klingler and Herbert Selpin Studio : Universum Film A.G. (UFA) Screenplay by : Herbert Selpin and Walter Zerlett-Olfenius Black and white |
| 1953 | Titanic | Directed by : Jean Negulesco Produced by : Charles Brackett Studio : 20th Century Fox Screenplay by : Charles Brackett, Richard L. Breen and Walter Reisch Special effects : Ray Kellogg Length : 98 mins Black and white |
| 1958 | A Night To Remember | Directed by : Roy Ward Baker Produced by : William MacQuitty and Earl St. John Studio : Rank Film Productions Screenplay by : Eric Ambler based on Walter Lord's book Length : 123 mins Black and white |
| 1964 | The Unsinkable Molly Brown | Directed by : Charles Walters Produced by : Roger Edens and Lawrence Weingarten Studio : Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer Screenplay by : Helen Deutsch based on the Broadway musical by Richard Morris and Meredith Willson Colour |
| 1979 | S.O.S. Titanic | Directed by : William Hale Produced by : William S. Gilmore, Roger Gimbel, Lou Morheim and Neville C. Thompson Studio : EMI Films Ltd. Screenplay by : James Costigan Special effects : Garth Inns Colour |
| 1980 | Raise The Titanic | Directed by : Jerry Jameson Produced by : William Frye, Lew Grade and Martin Starger Screenplay by : Eric Hughes and Adam Kennedy based on Clive Cussler’s novel Special effects : Alan Barnard, David Beavis, John Evans, Garth Inns, John Morris and John Richardson Length : 115 mins Colour |
| 1984 | Titanic (made for TV movie) |
Directed by : Lutz Büscher Colour |
| 1987 | Ticket For The Titanic (made for TV movie) |
Directed by : Zsuzsanna Mills Colour |
| 1996 | Titanic (made for TV movie) |
Directed by : Robert Lieberman Produced by : Fred Fuchs, Scot J. Kelly, Jeff Kleeman, Rocky Lang and Harold Tichenor Screenplay by : Joyce Eliason and Ross LaManna Special effects : Digital Muse (computer generated imagery) / Hollywood Digital (visual effects) / Vision Crew Unlimited (miniature visual effects) Length : 173 mins Colour |
| 1997 | La Femme de chambre du Titanic | Directed by : J.J. Bigas Luna Produced by : Yves Marmion and Daniel Toscan du Plantier Length : 101 mins Colour |
| 1997 | Titanic | Directed by : James Cameron Produced by : James Cameron and Jon Landau Studio : 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures Screenplay by : James Cameron Special effects : Digital Domain Length : 194 mins colour |
Novels
Bainbridge, Beryl, Every man for himself, New York, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1996.
Bass, Cynthia, Maiden Voyage, New York, Bantam Books, 1996.
Bunting, Eve, SOS Titanic, San Diego, Harcourt Brace, 1996, 240 pages.
Clarke, Arthur Charles, The Ghost from the Grand Banks, New York, Bantam Books, 1990, 274 pages.
Cussler, Clive, Raise the Titanic, New York, Viking Press, 1976, 314 pages.
Duey, Kathleen, Shipwreck : the Titanic, 1912, New York, Aladdin Paperbacks, 1998.
Finney, Jack, From time to time, Thorndike, Me., G.K. Hall, 1995, 444 pages.
Finney, Jack, From time to time : a novel, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1995, 303 pages.
Friedlaender, Robert, Titanensturz, roman eines zeitalters, Wien-Leipzig, Saturn-verlag, 1937, 417 pages.
Gardner, Martin, The wreck of the Titanic foretold?, Amherst, N.Y., Prometheus Books, 1986.
Hansen, Erik Fosnes, Psalm at journey’s end, San Diego, Calif., Harcourt Brace, 1996.
Henkel, Virginia, Letters from the past, Austin, Texas, Steck-Vaughn Library, 1991, 24 pages.
Huser, France, La nuit de l’iceberg, Paris, Fayard, 1995, 460 pages.
Krupkat, Gunther, Das Schiff der Verlorenen, Berlin, Das Neue Berlin, 1965, 299 pages.
Martin, Les, Young Indiana Jones and the Titanic adventure, New York, Random House, 1993, 139 pages.
Pelz von Felinau, Joseph, Titanic, die Tragodie eines Ozeanreisen, Berlin, Gutenberg Buchergilde, 1939, 325 pages.
Pelz von Felinau, Joseph, Titanic, der roman eines ozeanriesen, Berlin-Leipzig, Verlagshaus Bong, 1943?, 524 pages.
Seil, William, Sherlock Holmes and the Titanic tragedy : a case to remember, London, Breese Books, 1996, 253 pages.
Spedden, Daisy Corning Stone, Polar the Titanic Bear, Boston, Mass., Little, Brown, 1994, 64 pages.
Stanwood, Donald A., The Memory of Eva Ryker, New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1978, 350 pages.
Steel, Danielle, No Greater Love, Thorndike, Me., G.K. Hall, 1991.
Tanaka, Shelley, On Board the Titanic : what it was like whem the great liner sank, New York, Hyperion Books for Children, 1996, 48 pages.
Walker, James, Murder on the Titanic : a novel, Nashville, Tenn., Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1998, 487 pages.
Williams, Barbara, Titanic Crossing, New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, 1995, 167 pages.
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