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Titanic
Movie Titanic (1997)

4/14/1912

At 11:40 PM on April 14, 1912, lookout Frederick Fleet spots an iceberg dead ahead and rings the bridge bell three times — but the Titanic, traveling at 22 knots in the dark, cannot turn in time and strikes it along 300 feet of the starboard hull. The collision lasts ten seconds; 2,224 people have two hours and forty minutes left.