Books, movies, and more about the Titanic are being highlighted this weekend throughout the media to mark the 100th anniversary of the shipwreck.  At the Madison Library, you can find:

  • A Night to Remember: Criterion Collection DVD, new digitally remastered recording of 1958 movie, a dramatized account with characters based on real people.
  • The Discovery of the Titanic by Dr. Robert D. Ballard: nonfiction book about the discovery and underwater exploration of the Titanic shipwreck site in the 1980s.
  • Raise the Titanic by Clive Cussler: (fiction) Cussler’s best-known character Dirk Pitt in Cold War-era thriller from 1976.
  • The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott: (fiction) New novel uses Titanic as a starting point in this tale of a survivor who strives to be upwardly mobile.

For kids:

  • On Board the Titanic by Shelley Tanaka: “What it was like when the great liner sank.”
  • The Titanic, Lost . . . and Found by Judy Donnelly: Step 3 Easy Reader describes the sinking in 1912 and the discovery of the wreck in the 1980s.
  • Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, RMS Titanic, 1912 by Ellen Emerson White: One of the Dear America series of historical novels.

And from the Library of Congress: Researching the Wreck of the RMS Titanic. Photos, newspaper accounts from 1912, music and more.

Sorry, we don’t have the James Cameron movie Titanic on DVD, but we will order it once the newly released edition, now in theaters, is available to purchase as a DVD.

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