In Titanic: i segreti del film (2017) and Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron (2012), director James Cameron and a group of experts researched new facts and evidence concerning the sinking of the Titanic that had become available in the twenty years since the film's release. The object was to see if new information had made the movie retrospectively inaccurate. They discovered that Cameron and his crew had been quite adequate in their designs of the ship's interiors; the small exception was the telegraph room, which had been modeled after Titanic's sister ship, but looked a bit different. Fortunately, scenes that had been shot there had been deleted from the final print. Cameron also found out that the ship's telegraph had broken down a few days to the ship's sinking. The two telegraphers on board had repaired it, in spite of regulations to wait for the ship to reach the mainland.By ignoring this rule, they were able to contact the Carpathia to come and pick up survivors, saving hundreds of lives. There is evidence to believe that an outer door on one of the lower levels was opened to hasten the evacuation; unfortunately, this also sped up the ship's flooding. Eyewitness accounts of what exactly happened after the breaking of the ship vary wildly, so Cameron and his team did several (computer) simulations of the sinking and evacuation of the ship. The movie depicts the ship breaking between the last two smokestacks, while in reality, it probably broke halfway through the middle, just below the waterline. As a result, Titanic's stern section most likely did not drop back into the water after the ship broke in two, as depicted in the movie; it probably got tilted further into the upright position, until it finally sank.Concerning the evacuation, it is unlikely that more passengers would have been saved if Titanic had a full complement of lifeboats; the sinking of the ship went so fast that the crew probably would have been unable to lower more boats in the water than they did. Lastly, there is anecdotal evidence that Molly Brown (played by Kathy Bates) eventually commandeered her boat to go back and pick up survivors, and even threatened to throw off the unwilling crewman if he didn't cooperate.

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