 The "Tietgen" sank for real five years later when she was torpedoed by a German U-boat.A British film company planned to go one better by building and sinking a replica liner, and in 1914 the real-life scuppering of a large vessel took place for the Vitagraph picture "Lost in Mid-Ocean".The 1929 British sound film "Atlantic" was clearly (though loosely) based on the story of the "Titanic".