One of the most famous tragedies in modern history, it inspired numerous works of art and has been the subject of much scholarship. Titanic, British luxury passenger liner that sank on April 14–15, 1912, during its maiden voyage, en route to New York City from Southampton, England, killing about 1,500 people.
Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio star as members of different social classes who fall in love during the ship’s maiden voyage. Incorporating both historical and fictionalized aspects, it is based on accounts of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912. Titanic is a 1997 American disaster film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates.
RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United States.