Storočná Rose Calvertová rozpráva príbeh lásky, ktorý prežila počas prvej a jedinej plavby na slávnom Titanicu. Vtedy mala Rose 17 rokov a bola zasnúbená s bohatým a nesympatickým Calom Hockleyom. Na palube sa však zoznámila s chudobným írskym mladíkom Jackom Dawsonom (Leonardo DiCaprio), nadaným malairom, s ktorým prežila najkrajšiu chvíľu lásky. Ich búrlivý citový vzťah však zničila katastrofa lode, Rose sa zachránila, ale Jack sa utopil. Jedinou pamiatkou na chvíľu šťastia zostal jej portrét, ktorý Jack nakreslil. V trezore potopenej lode ležal vyše deväťdesiat rokov...
Príbeh natočený podľa románu Yanna Martela sa sústreďuje na Pí Patela z Indie, syna majiteľa zoologickej záhrady, z ktorého sa neskôr má stať riaditeľ. Pi jedného dňa vypláva loďou na Tichý oceán, ale loď stroskotá a on dostane len záchranný čln, v ktorom s ním plávu aj hyena, samica orangutana, zebra a tiger indický. Celý tento príbeh je o viere, nádeji a šanci prežiť túto nešťastnú udalosť.
In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the over-spending required to build the largest luxury ship in the world, White Star Line executive Sir Bruce Ismay schemes to reverse the direction of his company's plummeting stock value. Onboard the Titanic, brave German 1st Officer Petersen struggles to convince his self-important British superiors not to overexert the ship's engines.
A WWII pilot, bombardier, and radioman find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane during a scouting mission.
During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat.
After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive.
The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.
When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.
A nurse is taking an amnesia victim, who was imprisoned by the Japanese during WW II, to the United States in a plane piloted by Richard Denning. The passengers include a Japanese colonel on his way to Manila to face war-crime charges, and a couple who were married on the day they were liberated from a Japanese prison camp. During the flight, the colonel breaks away from his guards, causes the plane to go out of control, and it crashes into the sea. The survivors get into a rubber boat and go through a minor-league version of "Lifeboat, with no Alfred Hitchcock sightings, until Air-Sea Rescue pilot Jim Willis rides to the rescue.
A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.
A lifeboat crew discovers millions of euros worth of drugs on a fishing boat off the coast of Connemara.
Along the seashore near San Francisco, a boat belonging to the Pacific Coast Life Saving Service can just be seen as it returns to shore. Several men are at the oars. As the boat approaches land, it must make its way through rough waves and surging water.