Corrected entry: Shortly after the ship has struck the iceberg there is a left to right shot of part of the exterior of the ship which shows that the ship has a pronounced list. However, if you are familiar with the details of the Titanic you can see that the direction the ship's sloping in this shot seems to show that it's going down by the stern and not the bow, as it should be. Pay attention to the enclosed A deck promenade and bridge wing cabs.
Corrected entry: When Jack and Rose are running through the boiler room, notice their clothes are perfectly clean, even after they ran through the smoke and such. (01:19:35)
Correction: I see no reason at all why their clothes would get dirty, smoke may make their clothes smell but that's about all.
Corrected entry: Cal leaves the necklace in the jacket, and Rose later ends up with it. The elderly Rose says it was a dreadful heavy thing. Yet, she doesn't notice it is there until she is already safe aboard the Carpathian. Surely Rose would have felt the weight of it before then, especially with the coat being soaking wet.
Correction: She may have meant that it was heavy for a piece of jewelry, but since most jewelry isn't that heavy, that's not saying much. Once the coat gets wet (in addition to everything else Rose is going through at that time) it's doubtful that she would have even noticed the little extra weight in the pocket.
Corrected entry: When Rose is coming to New York on her rescue ship, she is looking at the Statue of Liberty. Her view of the Statue is only possible from dry land.
Correction: The footage was shot from the deck of a real boat.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Jack is trying to convince Rose to get on the boat without him, Cal comes up and wraps his coat around her. In the very next shot, the coat is all the way on, rather than simply wrapped around her shoulders. (02:11:25)
Correction: When Cal puts the coat on, the next shot the coat is still on her shoulders. The next few shots keep going back and forth from Jack to Cal to Rose and while it seems unlikely that she managed to put the coat on fully there was enough time when the camera is not on her she could have put it on.
Corrected entry: On the "last sunset the Titanic ever saw", the sun is depicted as setting off the port beam. That would mean Titanic was heading north. (01:19:30)
Correction: When crossing the Atlantic the normal route is to go north and cross the ocean where it's the narrowest. That's why they were in such cold waters to begin with.
No, if you look at the map of the route Titanic took (https://titanicfacts.net/titanic-maiden-voyage/, for instance), you'll see that, after leaving Ireland, it traveled southwest the entire time. At no point in this late stage in the journey would the ship have been heading due north the way it seems to be doing in this scene, given its position relative to the setting sun.
Corrected entry: The hole made by the iceberg in the movie is not as long as it should be-the hole left on the real Titanic was a staggering 91 metres (300 feet).
Correction: It is a common mistake that the "hole" was 300 feet wide, but in fact it was just a series of little holes that caused the Titanic to sink. There never was one big gash, as it is often told. Plus, the size of the Titanic could mislead the people to think that the "hole" wasn't even that big.
Corrected entry: If Rose and her mother both survived the Titanic, why didn't her mother go looking for Rose, seeing as how she became an actress?
Correction: First of all, we don't know that Rose's mother never went looking for her. But even if she picked up on "Rose Dawson" as the name Rose gave for herself at the end and did look for her, Rose could have run away to another town to become an actress, and used a stage name. She could have been a theater actress instead of a screen actress as well, so her mother may never have seen her.
Corrected entry: The floors of both the Smoking and Dining Rooms used linoleum tiles in real life. Not carpets, as seen in the movie.
Correction: The Titanic did have carpeting in the dining room - It was one of the first ocean liners to do so.
Corrected entry: As the ship's stern is rising, furniture is seen crashing towards the bow inside the ship. One piece of furniture is a bed, which slides down with the head and base facing the port and starboard sides of the ship. Rose's bed also faced a side of the ship. On the actual Titanic none of the beds in first class faced a side of the ship, they were always facing the bow or the stern. The proof of this can be seen in first class deck and furniture plans. (02:33:20)
Correction: There is no evidence to suggest it is a first class cabin shown. In fact it looks inferior to the standard first class cabins, so I would suggest it's actually second class.
Corrected entry: When Rose is about to jump off the back of the boat there is a long shot of her and she is wearing black socks. But when Jack helps her back over she slips because her red shoes get caught on her dress. (00:37:35)
Correction: She's wearing her red shoes the whole scene. At one point her shadow is over her feet and they look dark, but the toes are still pointy like her shoes.
Corrected entry: In the scene where the Titanic is moving away from the dock, there is a little girl waving from a man's shoulders on the dock. This is the same girl that Jack danced with on the boat in the third-class party.
Correction: They're not on the dock, they're standing very close to Jack and Fabrizio on the deck.
Corrected entry: It seems massively corny to me, the fact that there is only ONE iceberg in the Atlantic ocean (which spans hundreds and hundreds of miles) and the Titanic just happens to hit it. Surely there would have been more visible ice?
Correction: Not necessarily close enough that we would be able to see it in the dark. At daylight, survivors saw icebergs around them in every direction, and the Titanic had entered an ice field, which wasn't visible during the night. If Titanic hadn't hit that iceberg, chances were she would have hit another one within a few more minutes.
Corrected entry: The lift operator says to Rose "Sorry miss, but the lifts are closed," in an English accent. But later, in an Irish accent he says "I'm goin' back up, I'm going back up."
Correction: In 1912 British society, it was much less acceptable to have an accent other than an English one so it's not impossible to imagine people to hide or tone down their own accent and then being unable to maintain it under pressure.
Corrected entry: To seem more dramatic, several officers, crew and passengers exclaim that there are no more lifeboats on the ship, minutes before it sinks. However, the Titanic sank with two lifeboats never launched.
Correction: Passengers and crew on the real Titanic actually did say things like that, because they either didn't have the correct information, or saw that some lifeboats were gone and assumed the rest were too.
Corrected entry: When we see the old couple lying on their bed waiting for the ship to sink, the water rushing in under the bed does not rise. (00:22:35)
Correction: The water is rising; you can see it flow over the bottom of the table.
Corrected entry: The actors who plays Sven and his friends are not Swedish - their accent is too thick - but the guy who says "Talar fröken svenska?" probably is.
Correction: The big, blonde guy at the poker-table who fakes to hit Jack, is Norwegian.
Corrected entry: Two quotes from the movie were taken from previous Titanic films. When Molly Brown makes the joke: "Why do they always insist of a healthy dinner like a damn Cavalry charge?" it was said in 1953, in the first Titanic. And when the band is questioning why they are playing while no one is listening, the same question was asked by the band in A Night to Remember in 1958.
Correction: The quote's wrong, Molly says "Why do they always insist on announcing dinner like a damn cavalry charge?"
Corrected entry: According to the film, officer Murdoch murdered a passenger and then committed suicide, a point in the film that made his home town very angry and the film company donated £5000 to a charity, but Cameron has never appologized. According to eye witness accounts, he gave his lifejacket to a passenger and went down with the ship. (02:21:45)
Correction: This is a subject of historical controversy. There were witness accounts that an officer shot a passenger then shot himself. According to various historical analyses, it could have been any one of up to a half dozen officers. Murdoch is among them. Walter Lord, author of A Night to Remember, hints strongly that it was Murdoch (for what it's worth). As historians, no one can definitively say it was or was not Murdoch. As a filmmaker, however, Cameron had a right to speculate that it was Murdoch. This is artistic license, not a factual error.
Corrected entry: There's a scene where a woman from steerage takes her 2 kids to their room as the boat is sinking and tells them a happily-ever-after story which we assume means they're giving up hope of escaping and planning to go down with the boat. Also, in the same sequence, an old couple clutches each others' hands as water wells up next to their bed. Later, after we've all cried over the death of the woman and 2 kids, they are in a large scene in the background hopping on a lifeboat.
Correction: After the woman tells the bedtime story to her kids there is no more lifeboat left where one could hop in. We tried our best to spot them in any of the mass scenes but failed. A timecode or any other specification would help.
Correction: I'm sure Cameron would have noticed if he'd shot the ship sinking by the stern. The angle of the shot makes it appear that way. In the scene where the ship splits in two, it looks like the bow is level and the stern is falling down and back, despite this not being the case - both apparent errors are just deceptive angles.