The film starts out with the passengers boarding at Southampton. The movie depicts the life of the passengers on board the ill-fated ocean liner. On 14 April, during dinner in the Café Parisien, the Titanic strikes an iceberg, throwing the passengers in the cafe to the side. Panic strikes the passengers and the crew ready the lifeboats despite the fact that their are not enough of them. Woman and children are loaded while the men held back. The radio operators and captain jump ship and the Titanic sinks. Some survivors make it to a lifeboat, where they are pulled in. The captain swims to the lifeboat but when he is offered to be saved, he instead swims away and goes underwater to drown.