Titanic

When Titanic pulled into theaters 25 years ago, it quickly became an inescapable cultural juggernaut. Everything about it was huge: Its budget, runtime, box office, and accolades. And it catapulted Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet into a whole new stratosphere of fame. Now that we’ve got some distance from Leo Mania and “king of the world” jokes, how does James Cameron’s epic hold up all these years later? Vote for your favorite American Idol contestants at npr.org/AmericanIdol