April 13, 1970

Titanic (1943) ***

A Nazi German propaganda film, made during World War II, denouncing British capitalist greed for the sinking of the "Titanic" in 1912. This national-socialist film is so rabidly anti-capitalist that it was released without problems in socialist East German shortly after the war, but it was banned in capitalist West Germany for decades. The footage of the sinking ship was re-used in the 1958's British film, "A Night To Remember".