Titanic
Shipton the king of the world
James Cameron was the big winner at
Oscar night in Los Angeles
in March 1998. his 1997 movie was named the best picture winning 10 other Oscars too
as Cameron held up the oscar he repeated
a famous line from the movie
I'm the king of the world he later joked
that
size does matter
it was a dream that Cameron had for a
long time
he loved history and he was always
interested in the story
of the titanic Cameron's early movies
for example the terminator and aliens
were full of action titanic had plenty
of action too
but the heart of the movie was a love story cameron chose two young actors for this leonardo dicaprio played jack dawson born in 1974 dicaprio was first seen on tv at the age of five he became famous in the 1990s with movies like what's eating gilbert grape and this boy's life work on cameron's titanic was long and difficult for dicaprio kate winslet played jack's lover rose the british actress was also born in 1974 winslet was not interested in small parts in hollywood movies she wanted to act in the theater but soon kate was in the biggest movie that was ever made while cameron was making the movie not everybody was so sure about its success it took a long time to make
the movie as it continued the cost went up and up against it finally cost between 185 million dollars and 200 million dollars movie's opening was changed from summer of 1997 to December many newspapers and magazines wrote stories about the movie like Titanic sinks titanic was more expensive than any another movie for the first part Cameron filmed the real titanic at the bottom of the ocean, he had to go down to the ship in a submarine 12 times Cameron filmed most of the movie on a model that was almost as big as the titanic he wanted everything on the ship to be like the real titanic clothes furniture machines everything had to be exactly right not all newspapers and magazines like the movie one called it dead in the water but people around the world loved it the world's most expensive movie became the biggest success it earned over 1 600 million dollars
the biggest ship in the world the biggest and the best in the nineteen hundreds more and more people wanted to travel across the Atlantic ocean the ships became bigger and better as ship companies fought hard for customers in 1907 the white star line decided to build the biggest and the best of all the company plan to make three ships their name said a lot about them Olympic titanic and gigantic next to the titanic most other ships seemed small it was 269 meters 882 feet long at the time
the tallest building in the world was only 229 meters 750 feet everyone thought that the ship was also very safe there were 16 compartments in an accident big metal doors could close and then no water could get from one compartment to another the ship was even able to float with the first four compartments full of water the titanic became the famous unsinkable ship nobody seemed to worry about another important fact the ship could carry more than three thousand passengers but it only had lifeboats for one thousand one hundred and seventy-eight people lifeboats there were 20 lifeboats on the ship bridge the ship's bridge gave the captain and officers a good view compartments there was 16 compartments on the ship decks the ship had nine different decks the top one was the boat deck that ship is going to sink can some people see the future can dreams ever show what is going to happen a few strange things happened before the titanic sailed for the first time in 1912 strange books in 1898 Morgan Robertson wrote a book called futility or the wreck on the titan the book told the story of a ship crossing the Atlantic
it hit an iceberg and sank almost all of the passengers died because there weren't enough lifeboats six years earlier in 1892 William t stead wrote from the old world to the new in that story too a ship hit an iceberg and sank another ship picked up the survivors the captain's name was e j smith the name of the titanic's captain twenty years later stead traveled on the real titanic he didn't survive dreams and bad feelings the Edelman's were planning to return to America on the titanic suddenly Mrs. Edelman had a terrible feeling of danger
she and her husband didn't travel on the titanic Mrs. Blanche marshall watched the titanic from an island near Southampton, that ship is going to sink before it reaches America she said I can see hundreds of people in the icy water the titanic left Southampton on the south coast of England at noon on April 10, 1912 even at the start of the trip the titanic had bad luck there was almost an accident in the first minutes of the trip the danger passed but for some people this was a bad start to the famous ship's first trip across the Atlantic some people said it's bad luck the titanic sailed past two other ships the oceanic and the new york b because the titanic was so big the new york was pulled closer toward it the ropes broke on the smaller ship it began to float toward
the titanic see luckily a small the boat was able to tie a rope onto the new york it pulled the smaller ship out of the way at this time of year, there was also a the danger of icebergs in the North Atlantic but the titanic's captain Edward smith wasn't really worried about ice this was the unthinkable titanic the queen of the ocean the titanic was able to carry more than three thousand people but there were only two thousand two hundred and seven people on the ship for its first trip first-class 322 passengers second class 275 passengers third-class 712 passengers crew 898 people the different classes didn't mix on the ship they slept lived and ate on different decks of course the first-class passengers were on the higher decks the second class passengers were in the middle then came the third class passengers at the bottom first-class the white star line called the titanic
the queen of the ocean for first-class passengers life on the titanic was as comfortable as living in the most expensive hotels in Europe and America, there were hundreds of servants to look after them there private rooms were large and comfortable they could enjoy a swimming pool a library Turkish baths and excellent restaurants and bars some of the richest people in the world where on the ship in fact American john Jacob Astor iv was possibly the richest of all in 1912 he had 87 million dollars that is more than one thousand five hundred million dollars today Bruce is the president of the white star line and Thomas Andrews the ship's builder
were also on the titanic second class life for the passengers in the second class was comfortable too in fact second class on the titanic was as nice as first-class travel on many other ships these passengers also had a library and a few bars they too could walk around on an open deck and enjoy views of the ocean third-class more than half of the passengers were in the third class of course life on these decks wasn't as comfortable but the rooms were clean and bright more than 100 of the third class passengers were from Ireland the others came from many different countries in Europe most of them had the same dream they were leaving their problems in their own countries for them the united states of America was the promise of a new life a passenger's story part one seventeen-year-old Jack Thayer was on the titanic after a vacation in Europe with his parents I don't think I'll be bored on this ship he used the ship's swimming pool every day
a ship with a swimming pool on Sunday evening while his parents ate dinner with the captain jack ate alone excuse me can I have a light of course the two young men talked for a long time this ships wonderful isn't it I was on a ship that sank once it was near Alaska the man's name was Milton long he was traveling home to America too I must go to my room my parents will be worried good night Milton see you
tomorrow jack that night that's strange the ship has stopped what's wrong something's happened I'm going out on deck to see the fun I'll join you in a minute jack we hit an iceberg I'm sure of it an iceberg continues the unsinkable ship sinks on Sunday April 14th while the passengers enjoyed life on the titanic radio operators jack Phillips and Harold bride were busy many passengers wanted to send personal messages to friends and relatives on land but Phillips and the bride were receiving messages from other ships also 1 45 early in the afternoon, Phillips received an ice warning from a ship called the baltic it was the third warning of the day the message was taken to the bridge
but captain smith didn't show it to his officers until 7 15 pm 8 40 it was a cold clear evening now seeing the message about ice second officer light taller told the lookouts to watch carefully for icebergs 9 40 in the radio room jack Phillips took another message about icebergs ahead it never reached the bridge Phillips put it down on his desk and continued with his work eleven o'clock Phillips received another message this one was from a ship called the Californian the ship couldn't move through the ice shut up Philip said I'm busy 11 40. lookouts Frederick fleet and Reginald glee were cold and tired suddenly the fleet saw a large black shape in the ocean he rang the warning three times and telephoned the bridge iceberg right ahead
he told six officer James moody on the bridge first officer William Murdoch had to act fast he turned the ship left hoping to miss the iceberg he also ordered the crew to stop the ship the iceberg was 30 meters higher than the top decks some ice fell onto the deck as the ship passed it but nothing broke it was a different story under the water the iceberg hit the side of the ship making a few long holes below the water many passengers heard the noise but it wasn't very loud nobody knew it yet but this was the beginning of the end of the titanic 1142 captain smith hurried to the bridge what have we hit he asked Murdoch an iceberg sir replied
but the heart of the movie was a love story cameron chose two young actors for this leonardo dicaprio played jack dawson born in 1974 dicaprio was first seen on tv at the age of five he became famous in the 1990s with movies like what's eating gilbert grape and this boy's life work on cameron's titanic was long and difficult for dicaprio kate winslet played jack's lover rose the british actress was also born in 1974 winslet was not interested in small parts in hollywood movies she wanted to act in the theater but soon kate was in the biggest movie that was ever made while cameron was making the movie not everybody was so sure about its success it took a long time to make
the movie as it continued the cost went up and up against it finally cost between 185 million dollars and 200 million dollars movie's opening was changed from summer of 1997 to December many newspapers and magazines wrote stories about the movie like Titanic sinks titanic was more expensive than any another movie for the first part Cameron filmed the real titanic at the bottom of the ocean, he had to go down to the ship in a submarine 12 times Cameron filmed most of the movie on a model that was almost as big as the titanic he wanted everything on the ship to be like the real titanic clothes furniture machines everything had to be exactly right not all newspapers and magazines like the movie one called it dead in the water but people around the world loved it the world's most expensive movie became the biggest success it earned over 1 600 million dollars
the biggest ship in the world the biggest and the best in the nineteen hundreds more and more people wanted to travel across the Atlantic ocean the ships became bigger and better as ship companies fought hard for customers in 1907 the white star line decided to build the biggest and the best of all the company plan to make three ships their name said a lot about them Olympic titanic and gigantic next to the titanic most other ships seemed small it was 269 meters 882 feet long at the time
the tallest building in the world was only 229 meters 750 feet everyone thought that the ship was also very safe there were 16 compartments in an accident big metal doors could close and then no water could get from one compartment to another the ship was even able to float with the first four compartments full of water the titanic became the famous unsinkable ship nobody seemed to worry about another important fact the ship could carry more than three thousand passengers but it only had lifeboats for one thousand one hundred and seventy-eight people lifeboats there were 20 lifeboats on the ship bridge the ship's bridge gave the captain and officers a good view compartments there was 16 compartments on the ship decks the ship had nine different decks the top one was the boat deck that ship is going to sink can some people see the future can dreams ever show what is going to happen a few strange things happened before the titanic sailed for the first time in 1912 strange books in 1898 Morgan Robertson wrote a book called futility or the wreck on the titan the book told the story of a ship crossing the Atlantic
it hit an iceberg and sank almost all of the passengers died because there weren't enough lifeboats six years earlier in 1892 William t stead wrote from the old world to the new in that story too a ship hit an iceberg and sank another ship picked up the survivors the captain's name was e j smith the name of the titanic's captain twenty years later stead traveled on the real titanic he didn't survive dreams and bad feelings the Edelman's were planning to return to America on the titanic suddenly Mrs. Edelman had a terrible feeling of danger
she and her husband didn't travel on the titanic Mrs. Blanche marshall watched the titanic from an island near Southampton, that ship is going to sink before it reaches America she said I can see hundreds of people in the icy water the titanic left Southampton on the south coast of England at noon on April 10, 1912 even at the start of the trip the titanic had bad luck there was almost an accident in the first minutes of the trip the danger passed but for some people this was a bad start to the famous ship's first trip across the Atlantic some people said it's bad luck the titanic sailed past two other ships the oceanic and the new york b because the titanic was so big the new york was pulled closer toward it the ropes broke on the smaller ship it began to float toward
the titanic see luckily a small the boat was able to tie a rope onto the new york it pulled the smaller ship out of the way at this time of year, there was also a the danger of icebergs in the North Atlantic but the titanic's captain Edward smith wasn't really worried about ice this was the unthinkable titanic the queen of the ocean the titanic was able to carry more than three thousand people but there were only two thousand two hundred and seven people on the ship for its first trip first-class 322 passengers second class 275 passengers third-class 712 passengers crew 898 people the different classes didn't mix on the ship they slept lived and ate on different decks of course the first-class passengers were on the higher decks the second class passengers were in the middle then came the third class passengers at the bottom first-class the white star line called the titanic
the queen of the ocean for first-class passengers life on the titanic was as comfortable as living in the most expensive hotels in Europe and America, there were hundreds of servants to look after them there private rooms were large and comfortable they could enjoy a swimming pool a library Turkish baths and excellent restaurants and bars some of the richest people in the world where on the ship in fact American john Jacob Astor iv was possibly the richest of all in 1912 he had 87 million dollars that is more than one thousand five hundred million dollars today Bruce is the president of the white star line and Thomas Andrews the ship's builder
were also on the titanic second class life for the passengers in the second class was comfortable too in fact second class on the titanic was as nice as first-class travel on many other ships these passengers also had a library and a few bars they too could walk around on an open deck and enjoy views of the ocean third-class more than half of the passengers were in the third class of course life on these decks wasn't as comfortable but the rooms were clean and bright more than 100 of the third class passengers were from Ireland the others came from many different countries in Europe most of them had the same dream they were leaving their problems in their own countries for them the united states of America was the promise of a new life a passenger's story part one seventeen-year-old Jack Thayer was on the titanic after a vacation in Europe with his parents I don't think I'll be bored on this ship he used the ship's swimming pool every day
a ship with a swimming pool on Sunday evening while his parents ate dinner with the captain jack ate alone excuse me can I have a light of course the two young men talked for a long time this ships wonderful isn't it I was on a ship that sank once it was near Alaska the man's name was Milton long he was traveling home to America too I must go to my room my parents will be worried good night Milton see you
tomorrow jack that night that's strange the ship has stopped what's wrong something's happened I'm going out on deck to see the fun I'll join you in a minute jack we hit an iceberg I'm sure of it an iceberg continues the unsinkable ship sinks on Sunday April 14th while the passengers enjoyed life on the titanic radio operators jack Phillips and Harold bride were busy many passengers wanted to send personal messages to friends and relatives on land but Phillips and the bride were receiving messages from other ships also 1 45 early in the afternoon, Phillips received an ice warning from a ship called the baltic it was the third warning of the day the message was taken to the bridge
but captain smith didn't show it to his officers until 7 15 pm 8 40 it was a cold clear evening now seeing the message about ice second officer light taller told the lookouts to watch carefully for icebergs 9 40 in the radio room jack Phillips took another message about icebergs ahead it never reached the bridge Phillips put it down on his desk and continued with his work eleven o'clock Phillips received another message this one was from a ship called the Californian the ship couldn't move through the ice shut up Philip said I'm busy 11 40. lookouts Frederick fleet and Reginald glee were cold and tired suddenly the fleet saw a large black shape in the ocean he rang the warning three times and telephoned the bridge iceberg right ahead
he told six officer James moody on the bridge first officer William Murdoch had to act fast he turned the ship left hoping to miss the iceberg he also ordered the crew to stop the ship the iceberg was 30 meters higher than the top decks some ice fell onto the deck as the ship passed it but nothing broke it was a different story under the water the iceberg hit the side of the ship making a few long holes below the water many passengers heard the noise but it wasn't very loud nobody knew it yet but this was the beginning of the end of the titanic 1142 captain smith hurried to the bridge what have we hit he asked Murdoch an iceberg sir replied
the first officer
bruce ismay of the white star line was
on the bridge too
fourth officer joseph boxer went to
check the lower decks
fifteen minutes later he reported
water is coming in
12 o'clock captain smith
and the ship's builder Thomas Andrews
went below to check Andrews
immediately understood the terrible
danger
the ship could float with water in the
four compartments at the front
but there was water in five of the
compartments
five of the compartments there was no
hope
the titanic was sinking
1205
there was only one thing that captain
smith could do
now just after midnight
he ordered the crew to prepare the
lifeboats
women and children
first after Smith gave the order the crew started to wake the passengers they told them to put on their life belts and warm clothes passengers should go to the boat deck at first many of them didn't believe the danger of course the titanic couldn't think some of the first lifeboats were almost empty there were twelve people in one boat for seventy people as the front end of the titanic sank lower and lower in the water more passengers began to understand the danger but they still didn't know the most terrible fact of all there were more than two thousand two hundred people
on the titanic but the ship had lifeboats for only one thousand one hundred and seventy-eight parents said goodbye to their children husbands kissed their wives for the last time one woman's husband told her you to go I will stay the lifeboat left and she never saw him again first-class passenger molly brown was put into the third lifeboat and she helped to get the boat away from the ship later she saved a dying man keeping him warm with her coat an old woman Mrs idea Strauss decided not to go into a lifeboat she couldn't leave her husband we have lived together and we will die together she said, one man put on women's clothes and tried to get into a lifeboat
the officer sent him away angrily third-class passenger mini coots didn't have enough life belts for her two sons one of the crew gave his life belt to her there he said if the boat goes down you'll remember me by one o'clock the danger was clear to everybody now there was no problem filling up the boats and the officers had a different problem they had to keep people away guns were given to the officers on the boat deck come quick while the crew began to fill the lifeboats radio operators jack Phillips and Harold bride began to send messages for help their message was c q d come quick danger at first, Phillips and the bride weren't worried they even made jokes as they worked you'll see your first iceberg said Phillips with a laugh the Americans will enjoy
it answered bride they all like to have ice in their drinks the first replies came from ships that were too far away then Phillips heard from the Carpathia the ship was traveling from new york to the Mediterranean the Carpathia's radio operator Cyril Evans couldn't hide his surprise he immediately told Arthur Rostron the captain of the Carpathia then he called the titanic again the Carpathia was turning around it was coming to help but there was a problem the Carpathia was about 93 kilometers 58 miles away it could reach the titanic in four hours that was too long the titanic had less than two hours now Phillips and the bride understood the danger they continued to send messages hoping to find a closer ship the titanic was becoming noisier and their job became harder and harder as they worked Phillips and the bride started sending the new help message so the titanic was the first ship that sent an sos the message it was quicker and easier to send [Music] morse code sos morse code cqd the two men bravely stayed in the room until it was almost the end their last message was sent at 2 17 a.m outside on the deck hope was growing captain smith and fourth officer boxes could see the lights of a ship that was only 9.5 to 16 kilometers 6 to 10 miles away the crew tried to send a message to the ship with a light then at 12 45 am they began to send rockets high into the dark sky they sent a rocket every five minutes at first, the ship seemed to becoming closer
but then its lights disappeared hopes of help for the titanic disappeared with them what was the ship that was so close why didn't it help some people think that it was the California in fact the crew of the Californian did see lights in the sky and the lights of a ship but the ship seemed quite small to them when they tried to send a message to it there was no answer did the officers on the titanic see a different ship more and more people today think that it was a Norwegian fishing boat why didn't it help maybe it was breaking the law by being in the area well boys do your best after
one o'clock on the morning of April 15th the titanic's front end was sinking fast the band still played and the lights were on but everyone knew what was happening and there were few lifeboats left a 14 or 15-year-old boy tried to hide on a lifeboat the ship's officer pointed a gun at him be a man he said the boy left the lifeboat when one lifeboat hit the water its ropes were still joined to the ship before it could get away another lifeboat began to come down on top of it luckily the crewman cut the ropes with a knife in time was
it true many people believe that the third class passengers were kept away from the boat decks it is true that many of these passengers lost their lives some of the crew did try to help the third-class passengers to the boats the job wasn't easy passengers had to go up the ship's many decks many of them didn't speak they didn't understand the danger some refused to follow the crew and stayed on their deck some doors were locked by the crew nobody really knows why were they following orders were they just afraid but women and children from third class were sent to the boat deck the most crowded lifeboat left at 1 25 am with 70 people in it most of them were women and children from third class but the men were still kept away from the boat deck when they reached it at last it was too late almost all the lifeboats were gone by two o'clock the water was just below the boat deck when the crew were preparing the next lifeboat a crowd tried to climb into it the second officer like taller stopped them by waving his gun the crew made a wall with their bodies
first after Smith gave the order the crew started to wake the passengers they told them to put on their life belts and warm clothes passengers should go to the boat deck at first many of them didn't believe the danger of course the titanic couldn't think some of the first lifeboats were almost empty there were twelve people in one boat for seventy people as the front end of the titanic sank lower and lower in the water more passengers began to understand the danger but they still didn't know the most terrible fact of all there were more than two thousand two hundred people
on the titanic but the ship had lifeboats for only one thousand one hundred and seventy-eight parents said goodbye to their children husbands kissed their wives for the last time one woman's husband told her you to go I will stay the lifeboat left and she never saw him again first-class passenger molly brown was put into the third lifeboat and she helped to get the boat away from the ship later she saved a dying man keeping him warm with her coat an old woman Mrs idea Strauss decided not to go into a lifeboat she couldn't leave her husband we have lived together and we will die together she said, one man put on women's clothes and tried to get into a lifeboat
the officer sent him away angrily third-class passenger mini coots didn't have enough life belts for her two sons one of the crew gave his life belt to her there he said if the boat goes down you'll remember me by one o'clock the danger was clear to everybody now there was no problem filling up the boats and the officers had a different problem they had to keep people away guns were given to the officers on the boat deck come quick while the crew began to fill the lifeboats radio operators jack Phillips and Harold bride began to send messages for help their message was c q d come quick danger at first, Phillips and the bride weren't worried they even made jokes as they worked you'll see your first iceberg said Phillips with a laugh the Americans will enjoy
it answered bride they all like to have ice in their drinks the first replies came from ships that were too far away then Phillips heard from the Carpathia the ship was traveling from new york to the Mediterranean the Carpathia's radio operator Cyril Evans couldn't hide his surprise he immediately told Arthur Rostron the captain of the Carpathia then he called the titanic again the Carpathia was turning around it was coming to help but there was a problem the Carpathia was about 93 kilometers 58 miles away it could reach the titanic in four hours that was too long the titanic had less than two hours now Phillips and the bride understood the danger they continued to send messages hoping to find a closer ship the titanic was becoming noisier and their job became harder and harder as they worked Phillips and the bride started sending the new help message so the titanic was the first ship that sent an sos the message it was quicker and easier to send [Music] morse code sos morse code cqd the two men bravely stayed in the room until it was almost the end their last message was sent at 2 17 a.m outside on the deck hope was growing captain smith and fourth officer boxes could see the lights of a ship that was only 9.5 to 16 kilometers 6 to 10 miles away the crew tried to send a message to the ship with a light then at 12 45 am they began to send rockets high into the dark sky they sent a rocket every five minutes at first, the ship seemed to becoming closer
but then its lights disappeared hopes of help for the titanic disappeared with them what was the ship that was so close why didn't it help some people think that it was the California in fact the crew of the Californian did see lights in the sky and the lights of a ship but the ship seemed quite small to them when they tried to send a message to it there was no answer did the officers on the titanic see a different ship more and more people today think that it was a Norwegian fishing boat why didn't it help maybe it was breaking the law by being in the area well boys do your best after
one o'clock on the morning of April 15th the titanic's front end was sinking fast the band still played and the lights were on but everyone knew what was happening and there were few lifeboats left a 14 or 15-year-old boy tried to hide on a lifeboat the ship's officer pointed a gun at him be a man he said the boy left the lifeboat when one lifeboat hit the water its ropes were still joined to the ship before it could get away another lifeboat began to come down on top of it luckily the crewman cut the ropes with a knife in time was
it true many people believe that the third class passengers were kept away from the boat decks it is true that many of these passengers lost their lives some of the crew did try to help the third-class passengers to the boats the job wasn't easy passengers had to go up the ship's many decks many of them didn't speak they didn't understand the danger some refused to follow the crew and stayed on their deck some doors were locked by the crew nobody really knows why were they following orders were they just afraid but women and children from third class were sent to the boat deck the most crowded lifeboat left at 1 25 am with 70 people in it most of them were women and children from third class but the men were still kept away from the boat deck when they reached it at last it was too late almost all the lifeboats were gone by two o'clock the water was just below the boat deck when the crew were preparing the next lifeboat a crowd tried to climb into it the second officer like taller stopped them by waving his gun the crew made a wall with their bodies
while women and
children
got into the boat
now only two small lifeboats were left
each boat could hold 47 people
they were still tied to a roof on the
deck
while the crew tried to free these last
boats
captain smith shouted to them
well boys do your best for the women and
children
then he told them to save themselves
there was still more than one thousand
five hundred people on the ship
many of them looked for ways to survive
prepared to die
first-class passenger benjamin
Guggenheim
came on deck in his dinner suit
we've dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen he said at around 2 10 a.m Wallace hartley told the musicians in his band to save themselves all eight musicians chose to stay with hartley and they played a final song together suddenly the front of the ship moved more quickly down into the water a big wave began to move up the boat deck, the end was here a passenger's story part two i can't believe that the band is still playing jack Milton what have you done to this ship this is serious jack they're putting women and children into the lifeboats come this way then there are too many people where are my parents I can't see them the friends
watched as a lifeboat after lifeboat left soon the end was near look he's tying chairs together climb up here this is it jack good luck continues it seemed a dream the deck was getting steeper and steeper it was impossible to stand there was a terrible crashing noise as furniture and plates fell many people were thrown into the water others jumped hoping to swim to a lifeboat radio operator Harold bride was one of the men who were trying to free the last lifeboats as the great wave came up the deck one boat floated away on the water upside down more than twenty men climbed on top of it but the bride was under
the boat and he couldn't escape for forty-five minutes he held onto the boat in the freezing water in the great ship's final minutes the lights went out there was no moon that night but some light came from the stars in the clear dark sky suddenly there was a new noise this was the loudest of all and it could only mean one thing the ship was breaking in two people were still falling others chose to jump now one passenger spoke of the last seconds as the ship sank slowly the water seemed to come up toward us it seemed a dream at 2 20 on the morning of April 15th the queen of the ocean was gone at first the people in the lifeboats were most afraid for their own lives one crewman shouted pull for your lives but they had to decide what to do the titanic was gone and hundreds of people were in the icy water of the north Atlantic some were holding on to furniture others were trying to swim many were screaming for help to the people in the lifeboats the noise seemed to fill the night a
we've dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen he said at around 2 10 a.m Wallace hartley told the musicians in his band to save themselves all eight musicians chose to stay with hartley and they played a final song together suddenly the front of the ship moved more quickly down into the water a big wave began to move up the boat deck, the end was here a passenger's story part two i can't believe that the band is still playing jack Milton what have you done to this ship this is serious jack they're putting women and children into the lifeboats come this way then there are too many people where are my parents I can't see them the friends
watched as a lifeboat after lifeboat left soon the end was near look he's tying chairs together climb up here this is it jack good luck continues it seemed a dream the deck was getting steeper and steeper it was impossible to stand there was a terrible crashing noise as furniture and plates fell many people were thrown into the water others jumped hoping to swim to a lifeboat radio operator Harold bride was one of the men who were trying to free the last lifeboats as the great wave came up the deck one boat floated away on the water upside down more than twenty men climbed on top of it but the bride was under
the boat and he couldn't escape for forty-five minutes he held onto the boat in the freezing water in the great ship's final minutes the lights went out there was no moon that night but some light came from the stars in the clear dark sky suddenly there was a new noise this was the loudest of all and it could only mean one thing the ship was breaking in two people were still falling others chose to jump now one passenger spoke of the last seconds as the ship sank slowly the water seemed to come up toward us it seemed a dream at 2 20 on the morning of April 15th the queen of the ocean was gone at first the people in the lifeboats were most afraid for their own lives one crewman shouted pull for your lives but they had to decide what to do the titanic was gone and hundreds of people were in the icy water of the north Atlantic some were holding on to furniture others were trying to swim many were screaming for help to the people in the lifeboats the noise seemed to fill the night a
as the front part of the ship
sank the back came up out of the water
it climbed higher and higher
b the ship broke in two
the front part sank
see the back part of the titanic
fell back it sat flat in the water for a
short time
hope grew in some passengers they
probably thought
it's going to float
d then this part of the ship began to
sink
too soon the back of the ship was high
in the air
it didn't move for a few minutes
then it began to sink moving faster and
faster
into the dark water
in the water the people in the lifeboats
listen to all those cries for help
imagine the terrible discussions
you sit in the lifeboat the cold is
terrible
but you know that
it is much much worse for the people in the black water you can hear their screams in the dark they can't stay alive in the freezing water says a man in the boat it's too cold our friends and relatives are dying shouts a woman holding a small child my husband stayed on the ship we have to go back and help the crewman shakes his head we can't if we go back too many people will try to get into the boat then we'll
all die we have to save ourselves now agrees a man at the back of the boat he is crying as he speaks you listen in silence to the screams are becoming quieter as the people in the water become weaker and weaker soon it will be too late what do you think was the right thing to do in fact only one of the lifeboats did go back fifth officer Harold lowe ordered a search for survivors but it was too late when they arrived most people were dead only twelve people were pulled from the water one of the people in the water that night with young jack thayer a passenger story part three jack was a strong swimmer but the water was icy i can't believe it the ship is breaking in two milton where are you but jack never saw milton long again most of the men on the boat were from the ship's crew here boy help me where were you
i was under the boat others were not as lucky you can't come on one more will sink us that's all right boys good luck to you soon the ocean was silent and empty dead they're all dead my name's harold bride i'm a radio operator the Carpathia is coming to help i hope she arrived soon as morning arrived the ocean became rougher and rougher then watch that over there it's a star no it's a light it's the carpathia jack she's here [Music] the carpathia arrives when he received the titanic's sos message in the night captain rostrum of the Carpathia ordered his ship to go as fast as possible there was a lot of ice in the area but rostron was a good captain
the carpathia saw a rocket from one of the lifeboats at 4am less than two hours after the titanic sank it wasn't easy to find all of the survivors the lifeboats covered a 6.5 kilometer four mile area it took rostron and his crew four hours to pick up everybody people in the boats waved and shouted some burned letters and papers so the carpathian could see them rostron ordered his crew to count the survivors they counted 705 later people guessed 711 or even 757 survivors that meant that more than 1 500 of the titanic's passengers and crew died who lived and who died bruce ismey the president of the white star line escaped in one of the last lifeboats thomas andrews the ship's builder died with the ship he never even put his life belt on captain smith didn't survive
there was a newspaper story about him saving a baby in the water it probably wasn't true harold bride lived he even worked in the radio room as the carpathia sailed to new york jack phillips wasn't as lucky as bride he swam to a lifeboat but died of cold in the night second officer charles lighttaller survived he was the last survivor who climbed onto the carpathia wallace hartley and the musicians in his band went down with the ship molly brown lived and became famous for her bravery on the night of the disaster in 1960 there was even a musical play about her
the unthinkable molly brown jack thayer found his mother on the carpathia his father died on the titanic he later wrote a letter to milton long's parents describing their son's last hours alive first class men 54 lived 119 died women and children 145 lived 10 women and one child died 60 percent survived second class men 15 lived 142 died women and children 104 lived 24 died 42 percent survived third class men 69 lived 417 died women and children 105 lived 119 died 25 survived the crew men 194 lived 682 died women 20 lived three died 24 percent survived the world cries at first as the carpathia traveled back to new york no messages were sent to the waiting world some newspapers still believing in the unsinkable ship got the story completely wrong in their news stories the titanic was safe and all the passengers were alive when the news was finally known sadness and surprise were felt around the world ten thousand people were waiting when the carpathia arrived in new york on the evening of thursday april 18th through newspapers and radio the eyes of the world were on the ship and its survivors even after the terrible accident things were very different for first class and third class passengers the survivors from first class
were taken to the best hotels in new york but the passengers from third class were in a new country without any money or clothes or any of their things back in the north atlantic a ship was picking up dead bodies from the ocean in the next six weeks 328 bodies were found the crew of the makai bennett didn't know who most of them were but they did know john jacob astor the fourth possibly the richest man in the world he was carrying a big gold ring a gold watch and a lot of money when he died none of it helped him in britain and the us people were angry about the disaster many questions were asked why didn't cats and smith act on warnings about ice why did bruce ismay survive when his passengers died why didn't the californian help when they saw rockets did a norwegian fishing ship turn away from the titanic why weren't there lifeboats for all the passengers the mystery children
one of the strangest stories was the titanic's mystery children when the ship was going down a man passed his two young sons into the last lifeboat the father louis hoffman didn't survive the boys arrived in new york on the carpathia but nobody knew who they were no family was found in fact louis hoffman wasn't the father's real name it was michelle navratil navratil took the boys from their mother in france and decided to start a new life with them in america he didn't want their mother to know finally the mother saw her sons in a newspaper and the boys were sent back to france there they told her their father's last words tell her that i loved her and still do an unbelievable story alice cleaver was a nurse traveling on the titanic with a family in first class the allison's didn't know that years earlier alice killed her own child
but now she was helping to look after the alison's two children trevor and lorraine on the night of the accident the allisons went on deck alice cleaver acted quickly she picked up the baby trevor i won't let him out of my arms she told the boy's mother then she left and found a lifeboat after she got on the carpathia she kept trevor allison with her all the newspapers called her very brave but the allison family thought that trevor's parents died on the ship because they were looking for their son their other baby lorraine died with them was alice cleaver using trevor to save herself it is true that people with babies got into lifeboats more easily years later the mystery about alice cleaver and the allison family became even stranger in 1940 an american woman lorraine cramer spoke on the radio her story was hard to believe
she was lorraine allison this was her story a man on the titanic carried her into a lifeboat this man was the ship's builder thomas andrews he and lorraine live together in america sometimes bruce is may the president of the white star line visited them he wanted them to hide because they knew important secrets about the titanic cramer was probably not lorraine allison she was probably looking for money in fact many people think that alice cleaver helped her with information about the real lorraine allison interest in lorraine kramer's story showed that years after the accident people were still interested in the titanic the world saw one world war and then another and the great ship lay in darkness at the bottom of the atlantic but many people dreamed of finding the titanic again leave it there the ocean was four thousand meters thirteen thousand one hundred and twenty feet deep where the titanic lay
the water was black some people tried to find the ship but without success in 1985 robert ballard and jean jerry were looking for the ship there were 23 crew and 23 scientists on their ship the canoe the team was using a submarine without a crew to search the bottom of the ocean they worked for weeks and found nothing then on september 1st they saw pieces of metal on the ocean floor soon they couldn't believe what the camera was showing them there was a big dark shape in the water it was the front part of the titanic the crew and scientists of the canoe were silent for a minute as they remembered the dead of the titanic when the ship was discovered some of the mysteries of the titanic were solved the front part of the ship lay 600 meters 1970 feet from the back so the titanic did break in two as it sank before the ship was discovered people weren't sure about this
the ship sank 21 kilometers 13 miles from the position that jack phillips and harold bride gave on the radio ballard and his team returned the next year to look at more of the ship all of the wood was gone but some things on the ship looked almost new ballard's pictures of the titanic became very famous but dollar didn't bring anything up from the titanic he wanted to leave it all at the bottom of the ocean in 1987 the ship was visited by a team with a different idea this time the scientists went down in the submarine they brought 1 800 things up from the titanic a box from the ship was even opened on a french tv show it was empty many of the survivors were angry about all of this when ballard was asked for his opinion he said in a word sad this didn't stop the french team returning a few years later they brought 3 600 things up from the titanic what will the future of the titanic be one businessman wants to sell
trips to the ship will anyone ever bring the ship back up from the bottom of the ocean survivor ava hart hoped not before her death in 1996 she said leave it there the titanic on film when james cameron was writing the movie titanic he wanted to show the rich history of the ship and its many true stories he soon became sure of one thing the love story between rose and jack was the most important part of the movie if people worry about the two young lovers they will understand the disaster more the movie story doesn't begin in 1912 it starts in the present day when rose dewitt bouquet is old she thinks back to the past the camera shows us the young rose when she sees the titanic for the first time rose de witt bouquet is getting on the titanic in southampton it doesn't look any bigger than the mauritania she says speaking about another famous ship british actress kate winslet played the young rose unhappy at the thought of her future with rich cal hockley billy zane all of the clothes here are exactly like the clothes of 1912 jack dawson is a poor young artist traveling third class back to america from europe first class passengers listen while
jack dawson explains his ideas about life life's a gift he says james cameron later said about leonardo dicaprio i didn't want leo at first but after leonardo read some lines cameron changed his mind i knew he was the guy soon rose and jack fall in love when rose asks jack to draw a picture of her she is wearing nothing except the heart of the ocean around her neck this part of the movie was made on leonardo dicaprio's first day of filming important parts of a movie are often filmed at the beginning the two actors later became good friends the lookouts watch as rose and jack are together on the deck when they look up they will see the terrible shape of the iceberg in front of the ship of course this love story is a real difference between the movie and the real history of the titanic but james cameron explains rose's love for jack plays a part in the terrible accident that follows as the water comes higher and higher jack and rose try to escape from cow the actors in titanic were often tired wet and cold later dicaprio described it as his hardest job the crew send rockets high into the dark sky but the titanic is sinking in the 1958 movie a night to remember the ship didn't break in two because of ballard's work in 1985 cameron and his team knew more about the ship's last seconds jack dawson rose to whit bouquet and cal hockley weren't real people but many of the people in the movie did exist the movie shows captain smith and most of the ship's officers first class passengers molly brown and benjamin guggenheim bruce ismae the president of the white star line and thomas andrews the builder of the ship jack phillips and harold bride in the radio room in the movie jack dawson says that the cold water feels like knives these words come from one of the real survivors cameron read what many of the survivors wrote about titanic he used some of their words when he wrote the movie it was important to james cameron to show these real people he carefully planned the story so everything happened in the movie at exactly the right time try watching cameron's movie again after reading this book can you see all of the things that are true but there are some mistakes in every movie while jack and rose are walking on the deck you can see a small hill with a building on it behind jack but there in the middle of the atlantic ocean as rose finishes her story to brock lovett and his crew the last line of her story is he exists now only in my memory later she throws the heart of the ocean into the atlantic at the very end of the movie we see rose back on
it is much much worse for the people in the black water you can hear their screams in the dark they can't stay alive in the freezing water says a man in the boat it's too cold our friends and relatives are dying shouts a woman holding a small child my husband stayed on the ship we have to go back and help the crewman shakes his head we can't if we go back too many people will try to get into the boat then we'll
all die we have to save ourselves now agrees a man at the back of the boat he is crying as he speaks you listen in silence to the screams are becoming quieter as the people in the water become weaker and weaker soon it will be too late what do you think was the right thing to do in fact only one of the lifeboats did go back fifth officer Harold lowe ordered a search for survivors but it was too late when they arrived most people were dead only twelve people were pulled from the water one of the people in the water that night with young jack thayer a passenger story part three jack was a strong swimmer but the water was icy i can't believe it the ship is breaking in two milton where are you but jack never saw milton long again most of the men on the boat were from the ship's crew here boy help me where were you
i was under the boat others were not as lucky you can't come on one more will sink us that's all right boys good luck to you soon the ocean was silent and empty dead they're all dead my name's harold bride i'm a radio operator the Carpathia is coming to help i hope she arrived soon as morning arrived the ocean became rougher and rougher then watch that over there it's a star no it's a light it's the carpathia jack she's here [Music] the carpathia arrives when he received the titanic's sos message in the night captain rostrum of the Carpathia ordered his ship to go as fast as possible there was a lot of ice in the area but rostron was a good captain
the carpathia saw a rocket from one of the lifeboats at 4am less than two hours after the titanic sank it wasn't easy to find all of the survivors the lifeboats covered a 6.5 kilometer four mile area it took rostron and his crew four hours to pick up everybody people in the boats waved and shouted some burned letters and papers so the carpathian could see them rostron ordered his crew to count the survivors they counted 705 later people guessed 711 or even 757 survivors that meant that more than 1 500 of the titanic's passengers and crew died who lived and who died bruce ismey the president of the white star line escaped in one of the last lifeboats thomas andrews the ship's builder died with the ship he never even put his life belt on captain smith didn't survive
there was a newspaper story about him saving a baby in the water it probably wasn't true harold bride lived he even worked in the radio room as the carpathia sailed to new york jack phillips wasn't as lucky as bride he swam to a lifeboat but died of cold in the night second officer charles lighttaller survived he was the last survivor who climbed onto the carpathia wallace hartley and the musicians in his band went down with the ship molly brown lived and became famous for her bravery on the night of the disaster in 1960 there was even a musical play about her
the unthinkable molly brown jack thayer found his mother on the carpathia his father died on the titanic he later wrote a letter to milton long's parents describing their son's last hours alive first class men 54 lived 119 died women and children 145 lived 10 women and one child died 60 percent survived second class men 15 lived 142 died women and children 104 lived 24 died 42 percent survived third class men 69 lived 417 died women and children 105 lived 119 died 25 survived the crew men 194 lived 682 died women 20 lived three died 24 percent survived the world cries at first as the carpathia traveled back to new york no messages were sent to the waiting world some newspapers still believing in the unsinkable ship got the story completely wrong in their news stories the titanic was safe and all the passengers were alive when the news was finally known sadness and surprise were felt around the world ten thousand people were waiting when the carpathia arrived in new york on the evening of thursday april 18th through newspapers and radio the eyes of the world were on the ship and its survivors even after the terrible accident things were very different for first class and third class passengers the survivors from first class
were taken to the best hotels in new york but the passengers from third class were in a new country without any money or clothes or any of their things back in the north atlantic a ship was picking up dead bodies from the ocean in the next six weeks 328 bodies were found the crew of the makai bennett didn't know who most of them were but they did know john jacob astor the fourth possibly the richest man in the world he was carrying a big gold ring a gold watch and a lot of money when he died none of it helped him in britain and the us people were angry about the disaster many questions were asked why didn't cats and smith act on warnings about ice why did bruce ismay survive when his passengers died why didn't the californian help when they saw rockets did a norwegian fishing ship turn away from the titanic why weren't there lifeboats for all the passengers the mystery children
one of the strangest stories was the titanic's mystery children when the ship was going down a man passed his two young sons into the last lifeboat the father louis hoffman didn't survive the boys arrived in new york on the carpathia but nobody knew who they were no family was found in fact louis hoffman wasn't the father's real name it was michelle navratil navratil took the boys from their mother in france and decided to start a new life with them in america he didn't want their mother to know finally the mother saw her sons in a newspaper and the boys were sent back to france there they told her their father's last words tell her that i loved her and still do an unbelievable story alice cleaver was a nurse traveling on the titanic with a family in first class the allison's didn't know that years earlier alice killed her own child
but now she was helping to look after the alison's two children trevor and lorraine on the night of the accident the allisons went on deck alice cleaver acted quickly she picked up the baby trevor i won't let him out of my arms she told the boy's mother then she left and found a lifeboat after she got on the carpathia she kept trevor allison with her all the newspapers called her very brave but the allison family thought that trevor's parents died on the ship because they were looking for their son their other baby lorraine died with them was alice cleaver using trevor to save herself it is true that people with babies got into lifeboats more easily years later the mystery about alice cleaver and the allison family became even stranger in 1940 an american woman lorraine cramer spoke on the radio her story was hard to believe
she was lorraine allison this was her story a man on the titanic carried her into a lifeboat this man was the ship's builder thomas andrews he and lorraine live together in america sometimes bruce is may the president of the white star line visited them he wanted them to hide because they knew important secrets about the titanic cramer was probably not lorraine allison she was probably looking for money in fact many people think that alice cleaver helped her with information about the real lorraine allison interest in lorraine kramer's story showed that years after the accident people were still interested in the titanic the world saw one world war and then another and the great ship lay in darkness at the bottom of the atlantic but many people dreamed of finding the titanic again leave it there the ocean was four thousand meters thirteen thousand one hundred and twenty feet deep where the titanic lay
the water was black some people tried to find the ship but without success in 1985 robert ballard and jean jerry were looking for the ship there were 23 crew and 23 scientists on their ship the canoe the team was using a submarine without a crew to search the bottom of the ocean they worked for weeks and found nothing then on september 1st they saw pieces of metal on the ocean floor soon they couldn't believe what the camera was showing them there was a big dark shape in the water it was the front part of the titanic the crew and scientists of the canoe were silent for a minute as they remembered the dead of the titanic when the ship was discovered some of the mysteries of the titanic were solved the front part of the ship lay 600 meters 1970 feet from the back so the titanic did break in two as it sank before the ship was discovered people weren't sure about this
the ship sank 21 kilometers 13 miles from the position that jack phillips and harold bride gave on the radio ballard and his team returned the next year to look at more of the ship all of the wood was gone but some things on the ship looked almost new ballard's pictures of the titanic became very famous but dollar didn't bring anything up from the titanic he wanted to leave it all at the bottom of the ocean in 1987 the ship was visited by a team with a different idea this time the scientists went down in the submarine they brought 1 800 things up from the titanic a box from the ship was even opened on a french tv show it was empty many of the survivors were angry about all of this when ballard was asked for his opinion he said in a word sad this didn't stop the french team returning a few years later they brought 3 600 things up from the titanic what will the future of the titanic be one businessman wants to sell
trips to the ship will anyone ever bring the ship back up from the bottom of the ocean survivor ava hart hoped not before her death in 1996 she said leave it there the titanic on film when james cameron was writing the movie titanic he wanted to show the rich history of the ship and its many true stories he soon became sure of one thing the love story between rose and jack was the most important part of the movie if people worry about the two young lovers they will understand the disaster more the movie story doesn't begin in 1912 it starts in the present day when rose dewitt bouquet is old she thinks back to the past the camera shows us the young rose when she sees the titanic for the first time rose de witt bouquet is getting on the titanic in southampton it doesn't look any bigger than the mauritania she says speaking about another famous ship british actress kate winslet played the young rose unhappy at the thought of her future with rich cal hockley billy zane all of the clothes here are exactly like the clothes of 1912 jack dawson is a poor young artist traveling third class back to america from europe first class passengers listen while
jack dawson explains his ideas about life life's a gift he says james cameron later said about leonardo dicaprio i didn't want leo at first but after leonardo read some lines cameron changed his mind i knew he was the guy soon rose and jack fall in love when rose asks jack to draw a picture of her she is wearing nothing except the heart of the ocean around her neck this part of the movie was made on leonardo dicaprio's first day of filming important parts of a movie are often filmed at the beginning the two actors later became good friends the lookouts watch as rose and jack are together on the deck when they look up they will see the terrible shape of the iceberg in front of the ship of course this love story is a real difference between the movie and the real history of the titanic but james cameron explains rose's love for jack plays a part in the terrible accident that follows as the water comes higher and higher jack and rose try to escape from cow the actors in titanic were often tired wet and cold later dicaprio described it as his hardest job the crew send rockets high into the dark sky but the titanic is sinking in the 1958 movie a night to remember the ship didn't break in two because of ballard's work in 1985 cameron and his team knew more about the ship's last seconds jack dawson rose to whit bouquet and cal hockley weren't real people but many of the people in the movie did exist the movie shows captain smith and most of the ship's officers first class passengers molly brown and benjamin guggenheim bruce ismae the president of the white star line and thomas andrews the builder of the ship jack phillips and harold bride in the radio room in the movie jack dawson says that the cold water feels like knives these words come from one of the real survivors cameron read what many of the survivors wrote about titanic he used some of their words when he wrote the movie it was important to james cameron to show these real people he carefully planned the story so everything happened in the movie at exactly the right time try watching cameron's movie again after reading this book can you see all of the things that are true but there are some mistakes in every movie while jack and rose are walking on the deck you can see a small hill with a building on it behind jack but there in the middle of the atlantic ocean as rose finishes her story to brock lovett and his crew the last line of her story is he exists now only in my memory later she throws the heart of the ocean into the atlantic at the very end of the movie we see rose back on
the titanic
she is young again and jack dawson is
waiting for her
the two are together again
james cameron says that people always
ask him about this is rose dreaming
or is she dead cameron's answer
you decide
the world woke up
after cameron's movie more and more
people
became interested in the story of the
titanic
every year there are more and more books
and videos
on the subject but why
after so many years why are people still
interested in the titanic
there have been worse accidents on the
ocean in the years since then
what is so special about the titanic
some people think that the sinking of
the titanic
showed the end of one part of history
and the start of another
before the titanic sank it was a time of
great hope
people felt good about the world's
future
buildings were becoming taller machines
were becoming
faster and of course ships
were becoming bigger and bigger
anything seemed possible
for many people that dream of a
wonderful future
sank with the titanic
after april 15 1912
the world seemed a different place
just two years later the first world war
began
millions of people died
new machines were used to kill more and
more people
maybe titanic survivor jack thayer was
right
when he wrote the world woke up
on april fifteenth nineteen twelve
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