titanic

PEOPLE

With the sinking of the Titanic, over 1,000 souls were lost—but the following 12 survivors lived to tell the truth about that night.

VIDEO

Madeleine Astor was the queen of New York’s high society when she boarded the Titanic with her new husband, John Jacob Astor IV. Tragically, the iceberg that sank the Titanic also sank her marriage.

PEOPLE

Margaret Brown, better known to history as the Unsinkable Molly Brown, was a force to be reckoned with—and she did so much more than survive the Titanic.

PEOPLE

This 19th-century Nepo baby soon proved he had the wit and cunning to compete with the big boys of the business world—until his life was cut short by a titanic symbol of the very decadence that defined his existence in the first place.

THINGS

Over a thousand people perished when the Titanic sank on April 14, 1912. These are their last, heartbreaking moments on Earth.

EDITORIAL

The very first film about the Titanic's sinking was the absolute definition of “much too soon”—and extremely eerie to boot.



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