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Great Disaster Movies Part I : Shipwrecks!
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The Poseidon Adventure (Special Edition)The Poseidon Adventure (Special Edition)
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My absolute #1 favorite disaster movie (probably next to Titanic). The aging liner, Poseidon is hit by a 90ft tidal wave on New Years Eve, capsizing it. The survivors must then journey through "Hell turned upside-down" in order to escape.
Titanic (Three-Disc Special Collector's Edition)Titanic (Three-Disc Special Collector's Edition)
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Probably the most famous disaster movie ever; put together a famous story, an awesome director, famous actors and a huge budget and you get a hit blockbuster...sometimes
Poseidon (Two-Disc Special Edition)Poseidon (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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The awful big budget remake of one of my fav films! The sfx were superb, but the story and characters rather cardboardy...pity
TitanicTitanic
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The very rare 1943 Nazi propaganda film about the Titanic sinking, this film was an escapist spectacle showing the British owners as greedy and corrupt and the hero being a fictitious German officer.
A Night to Remember - Criterion CollectionA Night to Remember - Criterion Collection
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The classic 1959 Titanic film based on the novel by Walter Lord. This film is basically a docu-drama of the sinking and has many parallels to Cameron's film.
The Last VoyageThe Last Voyage
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A really rather good 1960's shipwreck film--filmed aboard a real sinking ship! A boiler aboard the aging liner, Claridon explodes, causing the ship to sink while a man must save his wife trapped in wreckage
TitanicTitanic
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A Hollywood portrayal of the sinking, where many historical & fictional characters are interwoven in a sea of love, affairs, corruption, and drama.
The TitanicThe Titanic
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A really rather good TV Titanic movie, pretty good special effects and some really good acting, terrible inaccuracies in some historical and artistic things though.
JuggernautJuggernaut
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An okay British 70's disaster movie about a madman who threatens to blow up a ship if he is not paid a large sum of money, and a bomb expert is flown out to the ship to disarm the bombs.
S.O.S. TitanicS.O.S. Titanic
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An okay TV Movie about the Titanic, filmed aboard the Queen Mary and in the Waldorff Astoria Hotel in 1979, an obvious TV quality film; there is actually another version told in a flashback
Titanic: Disaster in the Atlantic/The Titanic ChroniclesTitanic: Disaster in the Atlantic/The Titanic Chronicles
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A documentary that features the only remaining publicly viewable edition of the 1929 film, "Atlantic", a Titanic movie in which a large ocean liner strikes an iceberg & sinks.
Beyond the Poseidon AdventureBeyond the Poseidon Adventure
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The rather bad sequel to TPA...just odd in a quirky, campy 1970's way and rather unrealistic...
The Poseidon Adventure (2005 TV Movie) (Widescreen Edition)The Poseidon Adventure (2005 TV Movie) (Widescreen Edition)
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The really, really bad tv remake of TPA that I think might just be worse than even "Beyond TPA" was. Anyway, this "movie" is brought to you by the same man who did "Deep Water"
Lifeboat (Special Edition)Lifeboat (Special Edition)
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Alfred Hitchcock's classic film, "Lifeboat" finally on DVD! A passenger ship is torpedoed by a German sub and several survivors must try to stay alive in a cramped lifeboat.
History Is Made at Night [VHS]History Is Made at Night [VHS]
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The wife of a shipping tycoon falls in love with a French headwaiter and they travel aboard the grand new liner, Princess Irene, but it strikes an enormous iceberg in heavy fog and begins to sink,
CavalcadeCavalcade
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Not really a disaster film, but the Titanic does make an unexpected appearance in the middle. A really great film showcasing the life of a wealthy English family from 1900 to 1930.
Ghost Ship (Widescreen Edition)Ghost Ship (Widescreen Edition)
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A horror flick in which the Italian luxury liner, Antonia Graza disappears during a cruise in 1962 & reappears in the Bering Sea in 2002; ok, had its share of dull moments, cheese, and cardboard.
Deep RisingDeep Rising
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This is by far the most gorey shipwreck film EVER! It is about a massive luxury cruise ship on its maiden voyage and is attacked by a mutant sea-creature, mostly an "effects film.," the acting is poor.
Raise the Titanic [VHS]Raise the Titanic [VHS]
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A very stupid film based on the very good book by Clive Cussler, it puts the Titanic (at least a cheap model) in the middle of a Cold War Nuclear Arms Race.
Final VoyageFinal Voyage
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A B-budget action/adventure film about a petty thief who hijacks a cruise ship on its maiden voyage; this film is bad, but it has some good FX scenes, oh wait, my bad, it's all stock footage!
BritannicBritannic
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A somewhat good TV movie about a fictional German sabotage of Titanic's sister-ship, Britannic; it centers around a female secret agent who was aboard the Titanic & now must face her nightmares.
The TriangleThe Triangle
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Not as scary as Deep Rising but ok, this one is a TV one about a large luxury liner, the SS Queen of Scotts (i.e. the Queen Mary) that gets lost in the Bermuda Triangle and becomes possessed.
Treacherous Crossing [VHS]Treacherous Crossing [VHS]
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A movie about a couple on their honeymoon aboard a cruise ship, then everything goes terribly wrong...
Deep WaterDeep Water
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A terrible B-Budget movie, a rehash of "The Poseidon Adventure", but this one's far cheaper and poorly done, absolutely terrible, why must producers make such movies?
Lost VoyageLost Voyage
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TV version of "Ghost Ship"