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Tim Maltin deep dives into the historical accuracy of James Cameron's acclaimed 1997 film 'Titanic'.

00:00 Intro
00:38 Titanic leaves Southampton
03:39 Titanic going full speed
07:08 Edward Smith and J. Bruce Ismay
08:10 Rose asks about the lifeboats
09:44 Collision with the iceberg
14:46 Boarding the lifeboats
20:22 Murdoch shoots a passanger
21:43 Thomas Andrews, Guggenheim and the old couple
25:06 Titanic breaks in half
30:56 People in the sea

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20 Comments

@blesfemy 2 years ago

Our friend Mike Brady gonna be pulling his hair watching this

@GentlemanofTarves84 2 years ago

I was one of the world's leading experts on the Titanic when I was nine years old.
Self proclaimed of course. 😂

@YgorCortes 2 years ago

One very important fact is that Ismay was always actually AGAINST arriving early because that meant passengers would actually have some trouble with hotel reservations and other plans.

@michael_iansmiththeMHistorian 2 years ago

"Hey everyone its your friend Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs. Today we're going to be tearing this man to shreds about his mistakes on reacting to the Titanic movie!"

@stevehill934 2 years ago

mike brady:" i can see the amount of knowledge Tim has on this history already.....very small of course"

@andredesautelmusic 2 years ago

Murdoch shooting a man and committing suicide is well documented? In 2004 Cameron apologized and said he was wrong to portray it, "thinking as a storyteller rather than historian" .

@emmalarson07 2 years ago

I was immediately thrown when he said that Olympic and Titanic were twice the size of the next-largest ships. RMS Mauretania from the Cunard Line, launched in 1906, was 790 feet long with 8 decks and Titanic was 882 feet long with 9 decks. Even in tonnage Mauretania was 31k GRT and Titanic was 46k GRT. Not exactly twice as large.

@Jonno_B251 2 years ago

Dawson was not based on Thayer there are no similarities except for the name. Jack Thayer was from a very wealthy Philadelphia family and was a first class passenger

@Mildon44 2 years ago

I absolutely love that fellow Titanic nerds are in the comments and calling this so-called 'expert' out on his misinformation - it truly is a wonderful, and informed, fan base

@marsspacex6065 2 years ago

The last song the band plays always gets me 😢

@alexanderholloway7110 2 years ago

Let's get our facts straight. Jack Dawson was a completely fictional character that had a few historical circumstances written in as interesting easter eggs.

@danshepherd-u3g 2 years ago

He seems more like an enthusiast rather than an historian

@whalesong4401 2 years ago

I used to love everything about Titanic. Books, movies, i built a model when I was 15. I used to imagine myself there and surviving. I was super obsessed with the Titanic. Then I became a mother at 30. Now, the thought of going back in time to travel on the Titanic makes me sick. I feel what the mothers and wives must have felt when the night the Titanic sank.
I still love the ship, but my heart aches for the passenger and crew.

@masqerader 2 years ago

From my understanding the iceberg that hit the titanic start forming 15000 years ago before it broke off. What a ride

@MAnuscript421 1 year ago

I say the exact same thing. The problem with the wood being big enough is that it’s not the size, it’s the buoyancy.

@baliyae 2 years ago

Personally, I didn’t mind the inaccuracies. It was a great movie and still is.

@rachelh6826 2 years ago

The SS Californian actually was mentioned in the film. Sadly, it was a deleted scene, which very much should have been kept in. But you can find that scene easily online.

@robertbarnes432 2 years ago

As far as Jack fitting on the door and living, James Cameron had the best answer to why Jack died, “because it was in the script”…

@jordangrandmaison 2 years ago

Really should be laws around requiring experts to establish their bona fides...

@glanyan5462 2 years ago

In the movie, Jack and Rose were waist deep and more in the water (in the hallway, etc...) well before they were outside and the ship sank. They both would have suffered from hyperthermia.