Released in 1997, James Camerons Titanic has always been the top recommendation for anyone looking for emotional disaster movies. The film takes audiences inside the RMS Titanic, an ocean liner that sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City, United States. Its reported that 1496 of the estimated 2224 passengers died, making the incident the deadliest maritime disaster ever at the time.