Books

Titanic Books

Order the titles listed below now!

Morgan Robertson's Futility or The Wreck of the Titan

Violet Jessop, John Maxtone-Graham's Titanic Survivor :
The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop Who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters

Paula Parisi's Titanic and the Making of James Cameron

Douglas Kirkland's James Cameron's Titanic

Dana McCauley, Rick Archbold, Walter Lord's Last Dinner on the Titanic

Other Books Available
(Suggested reading if you want to know more about Titanic and those who sailed her)

Olympic and Titanic: Ocean Liners of the Past
Ameron House, Mattituck, NY, 1995.

The Titanic Disaster - Report of the Committee on Commerce
U.S. Senate
7 C's Press, Inc. Riverside, CT, 1975.

Last Dinner on the Titanic
Archbold, Rich and McCauley, Dana
The Madison Press, Ltd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1997

The Discovery of the Titanic
Ballard, Robert D.
Toronto: Warner/Madison Books, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1987.

Down With the Old Canoe
Biel, Steven
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. New York, New York, 1996.

Titanic
Bonsall, Thomas E
W. H. Smith Publishers, Inc., New York, New York, 1987.

Voyage of the Iceberg
Brown, Richard
James Lorimer & Company, Publisher, Toronto, Canada, 1983.

The Titanic - The Death and Life of a Legend
Davie, Michael
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, 1987.

Titanic - Triumph and Tragedy
Eaton, John and Haas, Charles
W.W. Norton & Company, New York, New York, 1986.

A Night to Remember
Lord, Walter
Henry Holt and Company, New York, New York, 1955.

The Night Lives On - New Thoughts, Theories and Revelations About the Titanic,
Lord, Walter
William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, New York, 1986.

Titanic - An Illustrated History
Lynch, Don
Hyperion/Madison Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1992.

The Maiden Voyage
Marcus. Geoffrey
The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1969.

Titanic In a New Light
MacInnis, Dr. Joseph
Thomasson-Grant, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1992.

The Story of the Titanic as Told by it's Survivors
Winocour, Jack, ed.,
Dover Publications, New York, New York, 1960.

Loss of the Steamship Titanic
British Investigation
7C's Press, Inc., Riverside, CT, 1975.

The Titanic Halifax Legacy,
Watson, Arnold, and Watson, Betty
Roster of Valor: 7C's Press, Inc., Riverside, CT, 1975, 1984.

Titanic: Psychic Forwarnings of a Tragedy
Behe, George,
The Aquarian Press, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England, 1989.

Her Name: Titanic
Pelligrino, Charles
McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, New York, New York, 1988.

The Ship That Stood Still
Reade, Leslie
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, New York, 1993.

Titanic: End of a Dream
Wade, Wynn Craig
Peguin Books, Ltd., Middlesex, England, 1979, 1986.

Movies and Videos

The Secrets of the Titanic
National Geographic Video. 1986. Distributed by Vestron Video.
This describes the location of the Titanic's final resting place by Dr. Robert Ballard and a team of researchers
Narrated by Martin Sheen.

A Night to Remember
1958. Starring Kenneth Moore and David McCallum.
Produced by William McQuitty, based on the book of the same name by Walter Lord.
NOTE: The most accurate portrayal of the wreck until the 1997 Titanic, also available on laser disc and CD-ROM.
A point of interest is the lifeboat used in this movie was built for it by Second Officer Lightoller's son.

Return to the Titanic
Hosted by Telly Savalas
A French expedition retrieves some artifacts from the Titanic and displays them on live television.
NOTE: This is a real dog and pony show, well worth NOT watching.

Titanic: Treasures of the Deep
CBS Special. 1992
A joint Canadian, Russian, and American team dive the Titanic using two submersibles.
Narrated by Walter Cronkite.

Titanic
Barbara Stanwyck, Clifton Webb, Robert Wagner.
Fictionalized account of the sinking of the Titanic. An excellent movie that won one
of several Academy Awards nominations, it is not an accurate portrayal of the disaster.

Titanic (1997) Collide with Destiny
The most accurate movie ever made of Titanic, not yet available on video.

Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster (1997)
(TV Documentary)
NOTE: Your's truly actually made the TV in this.

Titanic (1996)
(TV mini-series)
This show got excellent ratings the first night but most viewers switched off to something else the next.
That should tell you about the quality.

Titanica (1992)
An Imax presentation.
Well worth watching. Great wreck-site footage.

Raise the Titanic (1980)
Total fiction, the model of the ship resembles the Aquitania (Cunard liner) more than Titanic.
Reasonably good international espionage movie, lousy Titanic movie, horrible editing.
The novel it is based on by Clive Cussler is not much better. When one
considers that this was made by a British company one expects better.

SOS Titanic (1979)
Made for TV movie that tells the story using one couple in each of the three classes and centers mainly on
Lawrence Beesly, a second class passenger. Deals with real people and uses real names rather than a fictional framing story.
A lot of poetic license is taken and many myths are used to enhance the show. Still worth watching.

Titanic (1943)
A German propaganda movie made during World War 2 showing the brave German office taking charge of the ship when the
cowardly English botch things. I am trying to get a copy of this from the National Archives.
Some footage from this was used in the movie "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" (below)

Saved from the Titanic (1912)
Released May 14th 1912, 29 days after the sinking and stars Dorothy Gibson who was not only an actress but also
a survivor of Titanic. She co-wrote the screenplay, starred in the movie and to top it off wore the clothes she wore during the sinking. Sadly no known copies of this movie exist.

Related Items

Playwright Noel Coward's "Cavalcade" has a Titanic scene in it.
I have never seen this production and cannot comment further on it.

There is an episode of the British drama series "Upstairs, Downstairs"
in which Lady Marjorie Bellamy is lost on Titanic. I have not seen this but am trying to locate a copy.

The Unsinkable Molly Brown
(ca 1960s) includes some of her voyage on the Titanic. Not having seen the movie I can't say more.
The movie is taken from the stage play of the same name and is more than a bit fictionalized.
Stars Debbie Reynolds as Molly.
There is a web site devoted to Molly and the restoration of her home in Colorado.

Somewhere out there is a video done partly at one of the conventions where I was captured on tape signing in
at the convention. As I remember it's called "Titanic, A Question Of Murder",
but I cannot locate my copy of the tape.

Please, email me if you know of any other books, movies etc... that can be included on this page.