As a cruise skeptic, Cunard changed my mind. For the longest time I couldn’t figure out why anyone would take an ocean liner. Look what happened in the movies. Shelley Winters walks gaily up a gangway ...

HAMBURG, Germany -- The iconic Queen Mary 2 resumed trans-Atlantic service on Tuesday following a massive, 23-day makeover at the Blohm and Voss shipyard in Germany. Billed as a “remastering,” the ...

Ill-fated love, terrorists, con men—like the grand hotels that were also once staples of cinema and stage, ocean liners are reliable backdrops for every cliché known to the machinery of melodrama.