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Originally Posted by octothorp
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Isn't this stretching the non-fiction category by quite a lot? I can understand United 93 and Apollo 13, as these movies are based not only around historic events and historic characters, but also strive as much as possible to give an accurate account of the events. But Titanic is, at it's core, a completely ficticious love story around two completely ficticious characters, set in a historic setting amongst a cast of largely fictional characters with a few accurate historical characters thrown in. If we allow this to pass as non-fiction, we'd have to allow any film in a historical setting to pass as non-fiction, regardless of how much of the story is fictional.
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There's no way Titanic should be allowed as documentary/non-fiction.