Titanic

The Titanic disaster has captured the public's attention since 1912, inspiring some of the best and weirdest films and cartoons ever.

In Search of the Titanic is another animated Titanic-related film. One person (or group of people) having the idea to make an animated kids' film based on the Titanic is strange enough. Given that the 1997 film was a hit, someone thought there was potential for an animated film to capitalize on its success, so The Legend of the Titanic was born. Interestingly, a film about raising the Titanic (in order to obtain some valuable cargo) was a [notorious box office bomb](https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Raise-the-Titanic#tab=summary), while the 1997 film about its sinking was one of the highest-earning films in history. The Legend of the Titanic is an animated film - seemingly intended for kids - that likely wouldn't exist if not for Cameron's film. It's a straightforward and realistic (certainly for its time) film depiction of the event, taking a docudrama approach that makes the viewer feel like they're there. The ship shown to sink in Atlantic is called the Atlantic, rather than the Titanic, but make no mistake: this is a Titanic film through and through. Ultimately, it's the immediacy of its release and its status as a once-lost, now-recovered film that remain its most interesting aspects. [films from the silent era](https://collider.com/great-movies-that-are-more-than-a-century-old/) were preserved because In Night and Ice was also considered a lost film for most of the 20th century until a print was found in 1998. Saved From the Titanic was the name of that one, [James Cameron's](https://collider.com/tag/james-cameron/) 1997 epic, simply titled [Titanic](https://collider.com/tag/titanic/).