Titanic: 25 Years Later with James Cameron (Full Episode) | SPECIAL

What I really love is that James wrote Jack to be a lovable guy so the audience also falls in with him and when he dies we as the audience feel that loss and that's how the survivors who loss someone felt. So losing Jack was a representation of all the victims that were lost.

Cameron is correct. Based on Jack’s character, he would’ve definitely sacrificed his life to make sure Rose lived. In that moment, his priority was Rose. He also represents all the passengers who sacrificed their lives to help their loved ones get on the boat and have a chance to live. That’s the point of his character. He’s always meant to die. He represents all the people that were lost in that tragedy.

The Carpathia needs its own movie. She navigated the fields that sunk the Titanic and saved the 700+ people. The crew had tables, chairs and life boats all ready to go. And the crew worked in the darkness and so quietly they didn’t wake the rest of the passengers on board.

Don't see many mentioning this...but I always appreciated how the movie showed the crew having to go through the labor of sorting passengers, loading lifeboats, readying equipment, dealing with doors that have warped or been broken. The actual time cost of labor and the emotional state of the crew as they have people yelling at them and screaming for their lives is rarely factored into the conversation.

The one guy I give very high praise to is that stunt guy for enduring all that. Seeing him shake so bad got me worried. Yeah the stunt woman was also affected but not as bad. This was a very well made reenactment and the movie was really great too. James is a great director and producer and I admire his tenacity to get things a correct as possible.

There is something about watching people brainstorm together. Truly magical.

One thing the Jack and Rose experiments did not take into account is the fact that it was pitch dark out side, unlike the well-lit room where the experiment was conducted. The darkness would have made it much more difficult for them to coordinate on any kind of strategy to keep both of them afloat on the door.

Whoever played jack and rose in this experiment did incredible.

The movie created a human story that we could all respond to that put the tragedy of the Titanic into a true perspective. The desire to save Jack is reflecting the powerful desire we all have to save them all.

I just loved that fact that he actually cared if his representation was as accurate as it gets.

Coming from a career engineer…this special should be shown in middle and high school science and engineering classes. This is how you experiment, test, etc. - the scientific method is in full display here. A LOT of prep, model, test, revise, re-test, etc. and then you STILL have variables to account for. Sometimes what you get is still a best guess but it’s MUCH better than just blindly guessing!!!

I think one additional variable they did not account for in this door experiment was the ambient air temperature above the water also being freezing plus possible breezes and ocean spray. The odds were so incredibly stacked against those people.

The fact that people are still interested 25 years later is amazing. And that people still want to see Jack surviving. I’m grateful that I got to go see this movie when it came out in theaters in the late 90s. Just absolutely fascinating that people are still interested. And, like other comments have said, this really did happen to real people.

A round of applause for these stunt actors who actually gave it their all and didn’t just “do the motions” they ACTED the characters and they did a great job! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I’ll always have a massive respect for Cameron with this film. I could care less about Jack and Rose’s story, but how accurately he portrayed Titanic and the fact that he went back to see what he got wrong made my respect for him grow even more. Not a lot of film makers do that.

People don't take into account the fact that there were people who got completely out of the water that night but because they were already soaked in freezing cold water and they couldn't change clothes or dry off or warm up, they still succumbed to hypothermia. Even if Jack had gotten completely out of the water it wouldn't have guaranteed his survival, it would have increased his chances of survival to maybe 50%.

I love how James Cameron spent so much time proving that he was right about how he portrayed the ship sinking in the movie... I can appreciate that level of commitment.

After watching this I am amazed that they were able to save the number of people they did. The real-life situation must have been terrifying for everyone.

He made the greatest movie ever made, and the popularity was so insane, so much more than anything that exists today, that it obscured how good it actually was. And the fascination with the floating door is people trying to cope with the trauma of that ending and that scene, to try to undo it psychologically

Some actual survivors of the Titanic were saved from freezing cold water. Yet, even though they could get in the lifeboats from other passengers, their core temperature was seriously affected, leading to untimely deaths many months or years after the sinking. For example, First-class passenger Colonel Archibald Gracie wrote a book about his experience on the Titanic and what he witnessed during and after the sinking. About six months after the horrible sinking and after writing his book, he died from the long-term effects of hypothermia. Therefore, Rose would still lose Jack if they could get rescued from a lifeboat on the RMS Carpathia to New York City together.