Synopsis

As the "unsinkable" Titanic sinks in the Atlantic a freighter which might have averted the tremendous loss of life remained anchored with its wireless turned off and ignored repeated rocket signals.

Adapted from the book of the same name by Walter Lord, A Night To Remember chronicles that fateful evening on April 14, 1912 when the world’s greatest sailing vessel, The Titanic, was sunk by an iceberg.

Believed to be unsinkable, the Titanic was a nautical achievement that would be short lived as on its maiden voyage it struck a large iceberg which ruptured its hull forcing the great ship to go down. The film itself focuses on the dramatic event and the horrific loss of human life that occurred when the ships life rafts were unable to accommodate all of the ships passengers.

Told mostly from the perspective of second officer Charles Lightoller (Kenneth More), A Night to Remember highlights the struggles of the passengers involved in this disaster and how many poor souls were lost that night, not because of a lack of space on the life rafts, but because of their station in life travelling as third class or Steerage passengers.