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Jan 8, 2017 · Titanic: Sinking the Myths: Directed by Ryan Katzenbach. With Frances Fisher, Edward Asner, Robert Michael, Alex Paige Fream. A docudrama that dives into the political and economic factors of 1912 that lead to the TITANIC disaster and appalling loss of life.
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- Ryan Katzenbach
- 2017-01-08
- J.P. Morgan Planned The Disaster to Kill His Rivals.
- The Titanic Never sank.
- A Mummy’s Curse Doomed The Titanic.
- The Ship's Number Read 'No Pope' backwards.
- Jack Dawson Is Jay Gatsby.
According to this theory, millionaire banker J.P. Morgan planned the Titanic disaster to kill off rival millionaires Jacob Astor, Isidor Straus and Benjamin Guggenheim, who all perished aboard. The theory hinges on the fact that Morgan had originally planned to sail on the Titanic but changed his mind shortly before it took off. Yet it doesn’t offe...
People seem to love a good insurance fraud story, so maybe it’s unsurprising that this conspiracy theory is one of the Titanic’s most popular. This one posits that someone switched the Titanic with another White Star Line ship, the R.M.S. Olympic. But as Paul Burns, vice president and curator for the Titanic Museum Attractionsin Missouri and Tennes...
One of the passengers who went down with the Titanic was William Stead, a British editor who subscribed to early 20th-century spiritualismand had spent the past several years claiming a cursed mummy was causing mysterious destruction and disaster in London. As with other myths about “Egyptian curses” and “Native American burial grounds,” this myth ...
One myth posits that Catholic employees of Harland and Wolff, the Belfast company that built the Titanic, were distressed that the ship’s number, 3909 04, seemed to say “NO POPE”when viewed in a mirror. Was this a sign of bad luck that foretold the ship’s doom? Nope. The late Titanic historian Walter Lord wrote that he received letters from people ...
OK, this one is actually about the 1997 Titanic movie—and it’s a fan theory—but still. There is a theory on the internet that Leonardo DiCaprio’scharacter in Titanic and his character in The Great Gatsby are the same person. “[T]he movie is obviously an alternate timeline where he survived the sinking of the ship and went on to build a life for him...
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Titanic: Sinking the Myths shatters the long-held beliefs as seen in popular movie depictions that Titanic’s crew fired regulation distress rockets and turned away help from a German liner out of concerns for piracy.
Sep 22, 2017 · Seven-time, Emmy Award winner Ed Asner masterfully portrays the 96-year old Muller telling his true account of the disaster for the first time to author Bristow, played by SAG Award nominee ...
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Mar 3, 2011 · Titanic: Sinking the Myths. By Paul Louden-Brown. Last updated 2011-03-03. From the moment Titanic sank on 15 April 1912, with the loss of 1,503 passengers and crew, the newspapers were full...
Jan 6, 2017 · Encyclopedia Britannica. Titanic, in full Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Titanic, British luxury passenger liner that sank on April 14–15, 1912, during its maiden voyage, en route to New York City from...
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Apr 4, 2012 · Two-and-a-half hours later, it sank to the bottom of the Atlantic with the loss of over 1,500 men, women and children. It has inspired a host of films, documentaries and conspiracy theories.
