故事講述傑克(李奧納多狄卡皮歐 飾)，一個四處為家的年輕人，在贏得牌局的賭注(鐵達尼號船票2張)後，搭上了鐵達尼號，準備在新世界(美國)開展新生活。一日在甲板散步時，意外解救了要跳船自盡的蘿絲(凱特溫絲蕾 飾)，進而認識一些上流社會人士並有機會與蘿絲頻繁接觸滋長愛苗，但也開始與蘿絲的未婚夫日漸產生衝突。 當傑克與蘿絲計劃著未來時，鐵達尼號卻在此時陷入空前危機。一座巨大冰山逼在眼前，船長緊急動員，船身甩尾卻不及迴避，鐵達尼號與冰山正面撞擊! 巨大船身斷成兩半，災難逃生震憾動容…眼見逃生無望，為了拯救蘿絲，傑克犧牲了自己，臨去前告訴蘿絲”一定要好好活下去” …
印度發生政變後，少年PI一家人決定要移民加拿大，PI父母關閉原本經營的動物園，收拾所有家當（包括動物園裡的動物），搭上一艘日籍貨船。在船上，他們遇見一位凶悍的法國廚師。當天深夜在茫茫大海中，遇上一場暴風雨，吞噬了整艘貨船，只有PI和四隻動物鬣狗、紅毛猩猩、斑馬以及孟加拉虎理查帕克最後在救生船上。 在大自然生存法則下，救生船只剩下老虎理查帕克和PI，PI隨時隨地擔心被老虎吃掉，卻還是被迫和牠展開一場冒險求生之旅，長達227天的海上漂流。PI與理查帕克面對了許多無法想像的挑戰，包括遼闊的大海，無情襲擊救生船的風雨，孤立無援的恐懼等。其中一場特別兇猛的暴風雨，為PI帶來精神上的體驗，讓他質疑神對他的安排。然而從頭到尾，PI都沒有絕望。一本求生手冊、海上的生物光、壯觀的飛魚群在空中畫出的虹弧、閃閃發亮的碧波、以及一頭躍出海面的座頭鯨，都能讓PI讚嘆萬物之美。
二戰中，某客運船在在北大西洋海域與德國潛水艇激戰後沉沒，船上旅客5男3女蹬救生艇逃命。這其中包括著名作家康妮·波特（Tallulah Bankhead 飾），輪機工約翰·科瓦奇（John Hodiak 飾），發報員斯坦利·加勒特（Hume Cronyn 飾），受了腿傷的格斯·史密斯（William Bendix 飾），富豪查爾斯·裡滕豪斯（Henry Hull 飾），船上黑人服務員喬（Canada Lee 飾），護士艾麗絲（Mary Anderson 飾）和因嬰兒死去而精神錯亂的海莉太太（Heather Angel 飾）。眾人還救上來一位德國潛艇上的納粹威利（Walter Slezak 飾），由此引發了無數尖銳問題。本片獲奧斯卡最佳導演、最佳黑白攝影和最佳原創故事三項提名，並獲紐約影評人協會最佳女主角獎（塔盧拉赫·班克黑德 Tallulah Bankhead）。
This little-known German film retells the true story of the British ocean liner that met a tragic fate. Ernst Fritz Fürbringer plays the president of the White Star Line, who unwisely pressed the Titanic's captain (Otto Wernicke) to make the swiftest possible crossing to New York.
影片根據真實故事改編。1942年，二戰正酣。1月16日，三名彼此陌生的士兵，加瑞特•迪拉胡特（《為奴十二年》《環形使者》）飾演的飛行員，費爾頓飾演的投彈手，以及傑克•阿貝爾（《波西•傑克遜與神火之盜 》）飾演的無線電通訊員，駕駛美國海軍的一架飛機，出發執行偵察任務。 飛機燃油耗盡，不得不在南太平洋上迫降。三人沒有食物，沒有水，沒有任何補給，只有一艘4英尺寬，8英尺長的黃色救生筏，讓他們在危機四伏的海面上漂流。他們必須互相扶持，戰勝饑餓、風暴和鯊魚襲擊，想辦法讓救生筏駛向安全的陸地。
After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive.
The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.
When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.
A nurse is taking an amnesia victim, who was imprisoned by the Japanese during WW II, to the United States in a plane piloted by Richard Denning. The passengers include a Japanese colonel on his way to Manila to face war-crime charges, and a couple who were married on the day they were liberated from a Japanese prison camp. During the flight, the colonel breaks away from his guards, causes the plane to go out of control, and it crashes into the sea. The survivors get into a rubber boat and go through a minor-league version of "Lifeboat, with no Alfred Hitchcock sightings, until Air-Sea Rescue pilot Jim Willis rides to the rescue.
A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.
An Bronntanas is a contemporary Irish crime thriller set against the backdrop of the Connemara Coastline on the West of Ireland and the dramatic lives of a local lifeboat crew. The story is told through both Irish and English.
Along the seashore near San Francisco, a boat belonging to the Pacific Coast Life Saving Service can just be seen as it returns to shore. Several men are at the oars. As the boat approaches land, it must make its way through rough waves and surging water.