A Night to Remember - Criterion Collection (DVD)
On April 14, 1912, just before midnight, the “unsinkable” Titanic struck an iceberg. In less than three hours, it had plunged to the bottom of the sea, taking with it more than 1,500 of its 2,200 passengers. In his unforgettable rendering of Walter Lord’s book of the same name, the acclaimed British director Roy Ward Baker depicts with sensitivity, awe, and a fine sense of tragedy the ship’s last hours.
Featuring remarkably restrained performances, A Night to Remember is cinema’s subtlest and best dramatization of this monumental twentieth-century catastrophe.
Region 1 DVD, requires all-region player.
Two Disc Special features
- New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary by Don Lynch and Ken Marschall, author and illustrator of “Titanic”: An Illustrated History
- The Making of “A Night to Remember” (1993), a sixty-minute documentary featuring producer William MacQuitty’s rare behind-the-scenes footage
- Archival interview with Titanic survivor Eva Hart
- En natt att minnas (1962), a half-hour Swedish documentary featuring interviews with Titanic survivors
- The Iceberg That Sank the “Titanic” (2006), a sixty-minute BBC documentary
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: A new essay by film critic Michael Sragow and archival photographs