Ruth emphasizes that Rose's marriage to Cal will resolve the family's financial problems and maintain their upper-class status. In 1912 Southampton, 17-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater, her wealthy fiancé Caledon 'Cal' Hockley, and Rose's widowed mother, Ruth, board the Titanic. She recounts her experiences aboard Titanic. Rose Dawson Calvert, the woman in the drawing, is brought aboard Keldysh.

The sketch is dated April 14, 1912, the same day the Titanic struck the iceberg that caused it to sink. Instead, they only find a drawing of a young nude woman wearing the necklace. They recover a safe they hope contains a necklace with a large diamond known as the Heart of the Ocean. In 1996, aboard the research vessel Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, Brock Lovett and his team search the wreck of RMS Titanic. In 2017, the film was re-released for its 20th anniversary and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being 'culturally, historically or aesthetically significant'. A 3D version of Titanic, released on April 4, 2012, to commemorate the centennial of the sinking, earned it an additional $343.6 million worldwide, pushing the film's worldwide total to $2.195 billion and making it the second film to gross more than $2 billion worldwide (after Avatar). It remained the highest-grossing film of all time until another Cameron film, Avatar, surpassed it in 2010. With an initial worldwide gross of over $1.84 billion, Titanic was the first film to reach the billion-dollar mark. Nominated for 14 Academy Awards, it tied All About Eve (1950) for the most Oscar nominations, and won 11, including the awards for Best Picture and Best Director, tying Ben-Hur (1959) for the most Oscars won by a single film. Upon its release on December 19, 1997, Titanic achieved significant critical and commercial success, and then received numerous accolades. It was the most expensive film ever made at the time, with a production budget of $200 million. The film was co-financed by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox the former handled distribution in North America while the latter released the film internationally.

Scale models, computer-generated imagery, and a reconstruction of the Titanic built at Baja Studios were used to re-create the sinking. The modern scenes on the research vessel were shot on board the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, which Cameron had used as a base when filming the wreck. Production began in 1995, when Cameron shot footage of the actual Titanic wreck. Also starring are Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Victor Garber, and Bill Paxton.Ĭameron's inspiration for the film came from his fascination with shipwrecks he felt a love story interspersed with the human loss would be essential to convey the emotional impact of the disaster. Incorporating both historical and fictionalized aspects, it is based on accounts of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage. Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron.

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