A sensational new TV documentary about the sinking of the Titanic suggests that a nearby “mystery ship” may have been able to rescue hundreds -- and possibly all -- of the mega-ship’s doomed passengers and crew, but declined to steam to the rescue.

The man who discovered Titanic's hulk at the bottom of the sea got a strange question: Did you find the Heart of the Ocean necklace given to Rose in the Oscar-winning movie? Amid the audience laughter at a lecture, U.S. Navy oceanographer Robert Ballard ...

In a 1979 interview, Major Frank Winnold Prentice opened up about how he survived the Titanic catastrophe in 1912. Prentice remembered jumping from the ship's stern, avoiding the propellers and plunging into the ice cold water.

This real-life Titanic passenger’s heart did go on — in a century-old love letter. James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster “Titanic” famously revolved around the romance between Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet’s Rose DeWitt Bukater — two fictional characters created by Cameron himself.

Fate brought the piece of brass to his hand. Each button started the same, small, decorative and etched with a crisp, triangle-shaped banner emblazoned with a single star. Sewn by the hundreds on the coats of officers of the White Star Line, all would go ...

"It is a fine ship but I shall await my journey's end before I pass judgment on her," Colonel Archibald Gracie wrote on April 10, 1912 Brenton Blanchet is an Associate Editor on PEOPLE's TV team. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022 and his work has ...