The Other Side of the Night

Based on a true story, The Other Side of the Night recreates one of the most dramatic and controversial courtroom confrontations in history. For seven days in June 1912, two British sea captains and their officers sat before a panel of British judges, in an effort to justify the command decisions they made for their ships and crews in the early hours of April 15, 1912, when both had received distress calls from the sinking Titanic. The result was an unforgettable clash of personalities, as issues of morality and responsibility ran headlong into the demands of the law. The Other Side of the Night is a story of survival, sacrifice, courage, and cowardice, but above all it is the story of how life-and-death decisions are made for the best and worst reasons, throwing into stark relief the yawning chasm which opens in the human heart when the need is to do what is right, not what is merely easy.