 It is considered "the best "Titanic" film before "Titanic" (1997)" and "the most "accurate" of all "Titanic" films" and "the definitive "Titanic" tale", especially for its social realism, reflecting, in the words of one critic, "the overwhelming historical evidence that the class rigidity of 1912, for all its defects, produced a genuine sense of behavioural obligation on the "Titanic" among rich and poor alike; that the greatest number of people aboard faced death or hardship with a stoic and selfless grace that the world has wondered at for most of this century.