They said the worst part of being in the life boats is hearing the screams slowly become silent

For Titanic survivors not wanting to watch the movie, I can’t blame them. Must have been so scary.

I think *part* of the reason the film had such an impact on us back in 1997 is because we were still connected to that era. The survivors you mentioned were still alive, as were plenty of other elderly people who were alive in 1912. We were still connected to that era through them so the film felt different for us. Now, that connection is lost and to so many in the newer generation, it looks like just another historic event of the past that's too far removed to have that sense of connection. Sorry, that was beside the point but I wanted to share the thought. ☺

As someone who witnessed a traumatic death firsthand, if someone were to make a movie about what I experienced, I wouldn't have watched it. I don't want to relive those moments and I also wouldn't want to see an outsider's interpretation of what happened.

Eva Hart was 6 or 7 years old when she was on the Titanic and sadly she passed just before Titanic came out in 1997. I'm sure she would have watched it because she was heavily into it and always did interviews about it. She's the only one that's consistent with the same story ever since originally being interviewed.

Reminds me of when many D-Day veterans went to see Saving Private Ryan. It was so realistic and traumatic they actually set up a hotline for ptsd stricken vets who watched the movie. My Uncle was also friends with a D-Day vet who went and saw the movie.. he said it was like he was there on that Beach all over again.

Am reminded that Gloria Stuart, who played the modern-day Rose Dawson in the movie, was born in July 1910, and was the only cast member of the movie "Titanic" who was alive (more than 1 year old) when the actual Titanic sank. And like her character in the movie, she lived up to 100 years old (passed away in 2010).

There were actually people who remembered the accident watch A Night to Remember...Would be interesting to hear of everyone who watched that film and what they thought about it.

The two who watched Cameron's Titanic were babies/toddlers and so don't personally remember the tragedy. Of course, knowing their father died would be distressing to watch. But those who were old enough to remember, then watched 1958 ANTR ....wow

For many Americans and Canadians the Titanic story resonated because their family members- grandparents and great grandparents had emigrated to North America by steam ship across the Atlantic from Europe. They still had strong family connections to that period of history with the stories still fresh and with the final handful of elders who experienced the journey still living. The story for the Titanic represents one of the very first modern disaster stories to hit the headlines and have a major world wide impact through newspaper media. The Hindenburg disaster was the first to be captured on film. The Kennedy Assassination, 9/11, Princess Diana's death, the Boxing Day Tsunami and of course the Japanese Tsunami have all since had a similar world wide impact.

I think if I were a survivor I'd watch it if I didn't actually see anyone dying and if I didn't lose anyone on the disaster myself. Otherwise I think it would be very very hard to relieve extremely traumatic memories.

I know quite a few survivors watched the 1958 movie A Night to Remember. Of course more of them were alive then. But many of them said they were amazed by the accuracy of how the disaster unfolded.

It's an interesting topic to consider, because in 1997, the remaining survivors of the Titanic were so young during the tragedy, some too young to recollect anything about it. Yet they still lost loved ones. I can't even begin to imagine the emotional burden they carried.

A similar feeling would be if you lost family members during 9/11 and then were asked to watch movies or documentaries based on those events. If you lived those events too personally, there's not anything such movies or films can help with on an emotional level, it's only reliving a horror you don't want to experience again.

wow i didn't know that any of the survivors got to watch the film its pretty cool to know that now

When I went to see Pearl Harbor in theaters, there were 5 vets there watching it also that were at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked. They were balling after. They caused half the lobby to cry after the movie.

The one story that would make the most compelling drama, was that of the lone Japanese passenger: Masabumi Hosono, who boarded lifeboat 10 because he feared leaving his wife(at home with their children) a widow. Afterwards his act was made to be one of cowardice by his homeland; dishonorable on a national level. The disgrace continued even after his death in 1939(described as peacefully in his sleep).

It’s infuriating to know how much more space was left on those life boats. So many perished needlessly. So many more legacies cut short by incompetence.

My mother knew a woman in an Alabama nursing home that was a baby on the Titanic. She only remembered what her mother had told her about the event.

My Nan was born in 1923, 11 years after Titanic sank. She grew up in a time when it was still fresh in the minds of those around her. In 1997, she refused to watch Titanic saying it was disrespectful. Even now at 100-years-old, I can't convince her to watch it. 🙁

Thank you for coming online as part of those interested in RMS Titanic and for bringing a new vibrancy and a new generation with you! This was an interesting summary of survivors who were alive at the time of the James Cameron film in 1997. As a lifelong Titanic enthusiast, and a native Californian, living on the outskirts of Southampton, her story and that of all the other transatlantic liners resonates very strongly. Being in the Southampton vicinity after having a more detached understanding of Titanic for many years prior, it has opened a new universe, an epiphany really, regarding those who built her, her passengers across the three classes, and especially on the crew, who really got the short end of the stick. Having a chat with locals in the odd bookstore, Co-op or other venue, it's interesting to hear once in a while how many of them have relatives, not just related to Titanic, who served aboard the hundreds of ships sailing out of Southampton, during peacetime and war, who are part of the social fabric of the Golden Age of Transatlantic Travel.

Michel's reaction is kinda the only one that matters. He's the only one that was old enough at the time to remember the experience.

My gg grandmother was a titanic survivor she was 14 yrs old when the titanic went down so was my ggg grandmother 1st class. Man I heard her story back when I was in 6th grade she was already near 100 yrs old then. And man just thinking about it makes my hair stand up the movie gets part of it. But from what she said the it was loud you could hear the ship breaking and what sounded like bombs going off like ww2 she said. And she said the ship did seem to break in half and she did get to see the wreck site on video. Which was net and she started crying I remember my grandfather having ti turn it off because the wreck gave her a form of ptsd

A lot of these survivors were so young that they don't even remember the sinking. So I wonder why it affected them so bad. Maybe family trauma passed on to them?

I was a senior in high school, and this came out and of course, I couldn’t wait to go see it in the theaters. But I never gave a thought to the actual real survivors of the titanic. Thanks for putting this video up here. I stumbled across it quite by accident. And yes, like you said this Spond, my interest in the titanic.

Great video, as always, but this one have an emotional connection between Titanic and some survivors, which is something more than facts and data, which makes Titanic a living memory inside the minds of life survivors.

I'd be curious to know (probably impossible now) how many survivors watched the 1950's "Night To Remember" which is largely what Cameron based his movie from.

Sinkings are traumatic. Not too long ago there was this channel that reunited a family with a boat that had sunk in Lake Powell 30 years ago. The guys on this channel found this boat there that was no longer underwater due to drought and somehow managed to get it running and looking really nice. And they managed to track down the original owners. Great story, right? Invite them to show up and surprise them with the keys to their boat which they could take out on the same Lake again. I know the expected reaction in my mind was, wow, you guys did such an amazing job, thank you this is fantastic. Sadly, the filmed event was a reinventation to relive the trauma, especially for the father. Not exactly on the same scale of asking a Titanic Survivor to accept a ticket to take a trip on a replica boat, but the guy was visibly shaken. Later in the episode the creators essentially handed he guy the keys, and had probably initially been thinking that the guy would be happy and jump at the chance to Captain his old boat again. He wanted no part of that first trip and chose to remain on shore instead. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a6hdmtxe1d3Wn4k.html (He relives the sinking experience starting somewhere around the 15-minute mark) If I'm part of an experience like that I hope I could desensitize myself enough to live with it, but I completely understand why some people would not want to have anything to do with that kind of trauma ever again, whether it's connected with the loss of hundreds of lives about a hundred years ago or experiencing your dream boat needlessly go down while you watch plenty of other boats speed by you unwilling to stop or help.

Aw yeah! I remember hearing about Millvina’s death when I was finishing middle school in 2008-2009. Continued rest in peace to her and all those who died that night and the other survivors!

With the new technology to make movies in 1997, I think it would have been more traumatic for any survivor to see that night depicted on the big screen. So many of them saw A Night to Remember and many of them liked it for its accuracy. I think they would have been blown away by Cameron's Titanic

I just felt attachment to this movie even I watched it in 2022... I literally cried at end when Jack died because of cold

More trauma is formed when parents don't speak about it or the more you wait to tell them the more trauma it makes.

If I was old enough to remember the disaster, I probably wouldn't watch it because of the horrible memories it would inevitably bring up. But If I had been a baby or toddler, having no clear memories of the sinking, I'd probably be curious and try to watch. But i definitely would not have wanted to watch it in a public setting with other people present. I'd want to see it in the privacy of my own home, possibly with close friends or family there for support.

I belong to the Norfolk titanic society, and I met Milvina Dean once and she was a exceptionally lively lady that is that perfect grandma. She was not happy films were made about it or making money off it as it was very traumatic for her mother who told her from beginning to the end. It's as if I was there the way Milvina was telling the story. It was emotional and I still think what she told us years later. Trust me it's not nice. As she said, that wreck is her father's and other people's graves, all well they are gone but it's where they are, their spirit is. She believes like a sunken warship it should be a grave not a tourist attraction.

Some trauma survivors use the media (in this case, the movies) as a therapeutic way to confront their own emotions

4:33 i went to a titanic museum in Melbourne Australia and they gave us these boarding passes and mine was michel navratil

I had family on the Titanic, they were first class and they survived. I was in Kindergarten when the movie came out. I watched it later on and was like wow, my family was on that ship. If I were a passenger and survivor I would probably watch it.

The thing though about babies is... they have zero recollection of trauma. Imagine what we would all be like remembering our own births. Or experiencing an utterly foreign reality for the first time. Or, just going from oblivion to cognizance would be a memory that would drive you insane. The upshot is, the survivors trauma at the time of the release was acquired long after the event of the sinking, and created explicitly by subjective, second hand stories.

This is the first video of yours Iv watching, I have studied titanic for years, I don’t usually like watching other people on you tube talk about the titanic but you seem very educated and respectful. Im definitely subscribing. Thank you xx❤

hi, I'm a nerd am ten learned about titanic at age 8 and fell in love with it thanks for your videos i have a suggestion use floating sandbox for a lot of sinking animations

the Kidnapped French Orphans is the craziest story from the Titanic

Great video raf it’s cool that 2 survivors saw the movie

This disaster was more terrifying than we could imagine

Looking Forward to going to Titanic Belfast in a few days time. I'll be my first visit & I'm very excited.

this guy *really* needs more subs

Wow it must of been traumatic to watch after it actually happened to them

I don’t normally say this, but that was a great video, thank you for making it.

Just discovered your incredible documentaries. Thank you for your work.

Interestingly, they made a movie of Titanic right after it happened (in 1912), and Titanic survivor Dorothy Gibson actually acted in it, even wearing the same clothes she had worn on that night!

As much as I find it important to preserve the artefacts recovered from the wreck, the stories of the survivors to be told and the fascination of the event, extremely important, I also find it extremely important to respect the wreck and the area as a graveyard. Please let the victims rest there in peace🙏🏻❤️✡️✝️☪️

I appreciate how you answered the question in the title.

in terms of A Night To Remember: the whole film is on youtube for anyone that is interested. It's quite telling to see how much was lifted from it and put into Titanic 1997!

Imagine people in the 30s to 50s meeting the survivors when they were still pretty much alive?😳

I would imagine watching the 1997 version would be far more difficult for the survivors. I mean, it's one thing to see the night recreated in vivid accurate detail, but I think it's something else entirely for them to see actual footage of the wreck itself at the bottom of the ocean. That would be rough. If I was a survivor, and I knew before hand that they had that footage in the movie, I probably wouldnt watch it either. I wouldnt want to see what it looks like sitting on the ocean floor.

When the movie Battle of Britain was released in 1968 I asked my mother , who lived in London during the war, if she would like to see it. She shrugged and smiled and said ‘no thanks son, I saw the real thing’.

I’m so glad this video popped up as a suggestion! I’ve been a big Titanic buff as long as I can remember, well before the movie came out.

I was always interested in Titanic, beginning around the time I was 5-6, and watched so many documentaries and read so many books, and stumbled across the James Cameron film when I was maybe 6-7. I thought at first this was real, like a real footage of the Titanic disaster.

My great grandfather Albert Horswill was a crewman aboard Titanic. He survived the wreck after Officer Murdoch ordered him and 6 other crewmen into cutter lifeboat one along with five first class passengers. Cosmo and Lucy Duff Gordon and their secretary Mabel Francatelli were among the five passengers on the lifeboat. They were falsely accused of bribing my great grandfather and the other crewmen to not pickup passengers in the sea. This was merely a kind gesture by Cosmo to compensate the men for lost wages as opposed to the awful lie that it was a bribe.

I’ve been doing a lot of research on the titanic and this guy is awesome❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

You explain every point soo nicely, worth watching! 😊

I honestly would not wanna see the movie if I was a Titanic survivor, I wouldn't want to be reminded of all of those terrible memories and seeing all those drowning and hearing those screams and that lady was right about going to the Titanic wreck it is kinda like disrespecting those people's grave

Titanic was really the 9/11 and Pearl Harbor of that era. For the people who experienced and survived it, you can place yourself inside one of the Trade Center towers as it happened and imagine those survivors. We had TV and the 1940s world had radio to see and hear everything in real time which of course the world had neither in 1912. But it was that great of a disaster for America and England. So I think it’s actually easy for us to understand the trauma the Titanic survivors (and those who perished) experienced. Unless you’re too young to remember 9/11.

NONE of these survivors would have had ANY memory of Titanic, so their reactions are essentially that of an old person watching an intense drama. One tends to be increasingly emotional with age so essentially their reactions were to the thought of it having happened to them. And who wouldn't react like that?

I loved the titantic! Since 1994 and April is Titantic month to me! New subscriber!

I feel like i would be so curious to watch the movie because I’d want to know how accurate the movie was to the real disaster

I can't imagine looking at the news about the tragedy of something like the Titanic and seeing my babies as orphans. Wow.

The way I relate to all the things he said about the movie 😂❤

I wouldn’t be able to sit through a 9/11 movie-and I wasn’t even on site. I watched it unfold like most of the rest of us (those of us old enough, oh gosh) on television. I think for the very young survivors of Titanic I’m sure it’s a little different, a way to reconnect with an experience they might not quite remember.

When Titanic came out, I was already a Leo fan and an avid Titanic reader(?) .. Seeing the film in theater 4x made me ever the more interested in the actual stories.. Oh to have spoken with the older survivors., not the babies or toddlers of the tragedy- bless them all.

First time seeing your channel and subbed in the first minute, really brings a nice perspective and information, I had no clue about the Titanic orphans, now I do, thank you

For the survivor that didn’t want to watch the movie, I agree completely because imagine how scary and traumatic it would have been.

I think I'd agree with Asher H if I'd been a Titanic survivor, though I'm not really sure if I would have ever healed emotionally from the disaster. Would depend whether I was one of the survivors who got off on a lifeboat or one of the few survivors who was still on Titanic as she went down and then rescued from the water.

Very interesting video !! Please do a video about how the titanic broke in half

You can not say you would have watched the movie unless you have lived the horror of that experience!

Thank you for making this video and sharing there storys

would be the exact same argument if a 911 survivor watched a movie about 911 and twin towers collapsing even though its been years and years since the event to the survivor its still going to be fresh just like it happened yesterday its no way to ever get over a traumatic experience like that and watching a movie about it would be enough to make them literally go insane

I think this movie would be too traumatic to watch for them! People who clicked "yes" have never had PTSD. My cousin wrote a book with my experience in it. I'm not reading that book 😑

What a wonderful man. How I miss this man! I remember being a child without a dad and all I had in my head what the wish that this was my dad. Whenever I was down I put a movie with him in it just for comfort.

Woah I didn’t even know the movie premiered on my fifth birthday. I was born oN December 19th 1992 so wild. I remember watching the movie for the first time in the first grade on vhs.

I can see the younger survivors going to see this movie, because they probably don't have memories of the event. I can't remember anything before the age of 5. As for the elderly who could remember, why would they go see this movie? They lived it and have lived with it since then. As for me, I'm pretty sure my answer would have been no if I was old enough to remember. Fun fact, apparently a survivor of the Titanic was part of a movie in the 1910s about the event, where he played a survivor (minor role). Sadly, the footage had been lost and the movie was never released.

Please, PLEASE make a video on the Titanic orphans. I read a book by Celia Imrie last month based on the young life of the children's mother and it was an absolutely incredible book, as is the story. I'd love to see you discuss it

I’ve been used w titanic but I finally found your channel ❤❤

The story of the Titanic will live on forever.

So the youngest survivor indeed outlived every single survivor. That is incredible.

If I were to survive that kind of massive tragedy, I wouldn’t want to watch the movie either. I wouldn’t want it to be some kind of bastardization of the real horrific experience that claimed so many lives….. At the very least I’d give it a few years to brace myself for some really painful memories.

Millvina was the last survivor but she was also the youngest passenger at 2 months

I was doing some genealogy in the mid 90's and found a namesake on the Titanic, and went the Greenwich exhibition in 1995. He died age 19 from 2nd class and his body was recovered to his Cornwall home. With only 200 of us worldwide and many of those being my known relatives, we still wonder if or how he is related to us.

It's an interesting topic. Good to keep in mind that in the mid-90s we still had a fair number of WW1 vets still alive and tons of WW2 vets. Movies covering those events from several angles and taking every tone possible from tragedy to action to comedy have been around in blockbuster form for decades. I know my dad's dad, a tailgunner in the pacific theater who lost a lot of friends, refused to let his kids watch MacKale's Navy when he was in the house but not sure how he'd have responded to a more serious approach. Probably wouldn't be interested but I'm sure a lot of those guys felt differently. Or how about all the big action Vietnam movies that came out in the 70s-80s? Cameron was extremely respectful in his coverage and given the time passed, I could see some survivors appreciating it if they'd had the chance to see it. Cool video topic.

I understand where not wanting to watch the movies about the ship and her voyagers makes sense. It's an event that hits hard and not wanting to remember or even think about what happened to loved ones who passed away on her would be hard. While I do think we should honor her memory and make sure we pass along the story she told, I also understand that digging into her wreck is like digging into someone's grave. As much as I would love for more pieces of her wreck to be lifted, I also think we should let her pieces lay where they are. Basically if I was in the same position and unless I completely moved on, I wouldn't want to watch it as well. To relieve those past events would be so disheartening and could bring up new traumas.

I know it's a video made 2 years ago, but I really started to think about if I watched the movie if I was a survivor... and given that I was probably too little to remember the event during it, I will, out of curiosity, because James Cameron movie really captured a lot of details and emotions of the tragedy, with modern special effects... I think while knowing it's a movie and not everything is 100% exactly the same, there would be something fascinating in seeing realistic recreation of event that definied my life, but I do not remember myself.

I wouldn’t want to relive the trauma and I would get super pissed about inaccuracies

And imagine... 1912 you get Titanic and just 27 years later WWII.

I think they were all invited to the premiere.

Elanor was a toddler. if she was 87 in 1998 she was 1 or 2 in 1912. That’s crazy if she remembers that at such a young age!

On a related note: there is a pretty cool picture of Joseph Boxhall (Titanic's 4th officer) in a cinema, watching A Night To Remember. He actually worked as an advisor on the film.

now my question is have the survivors seen "A night to remember. " there would be alot more survivors in 58.

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in some or most theaters the Titanic movie is being played again for the 25th anniversary...i just it watched last night...for me watching the movie was bitter sweet since i seen the movie with my mom when it first came out...she passed away unexpectedly in 2021

Amazing! Love this, so cool.

They never thought of doing a film on the aftermath of the titanic?