All 9 James Cameron movies ranked from worst to best

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Acclaimed filmmaker James Cameron created a timeless and unforgettable tour de force, Titanic won 11 Academy Awards and triumphs as a true cinematic masterpiece. In the movie, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet light up the screen as Jack and Rose, the young lovers who find one another on the maiden voyage of the once thought to be unsinkable R.M.S. Titanic. But when the doomed luxury liner collides with an iceberg in the frigid North Atlantic, their passionate love affair becomes a thrilling race for survival. Titanic is one of the five iconic and acclaimed feature films from the Paramount Pictures library that CBS will be airing on Sunday evenings throughout the month of May. Titanic airs on Sunday, May 24 (7:00-11:16 PM, ET/PT) ©Paramount All Rights Reserved /

3. Titanic

Titanic held the record for being the highest-grossing movie of all time for 12 years (until Cameron himself bested the record with Avatar) and it’s easy to see why it endeared itself to audiences so much.

Let’s face it, pretty much everyone headed into Titanic knowing it was going to be a tragedy, but I’m not sure anyone expected to get so connected to Rose and Jack’s love story. It sounds strange saying that given that Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio were all over the marketing for the film, but the performances that both actors give in this movie are so captivating that you can’t help but root for a romance you know is already doomed.

Its three-hour runtime is very effective on this front, because it spends the first hour making you fall in love with them, all while increasing the tension and building up suspense to the iceberg collision you know is coming. And when it comes, and all you feel is heartbreak and terror, you still find yourself championing Jack and Rose’s will to survive and love each other.

Titanic is heartbreaking, heartwarming, infuriating, and beautiful – and when it’s not busy being all of those things (and more), it’s a visual spectacle. It is, and always will be, a masterpiece of cinema.

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