It is widely thought of as the film with the biggest US box office of all time. But Titanic, James Cameron's 1997 romance set on the doomed ship, which took $600.8m (£371.4m) at the world's most important movie market, has been sunk by analysts who say it would only come in at No 6 in an inflation-adjusted chart.
Titanic Release: 1997 Countries: UK, USA Cert (UK): 12 Runtime: 195 mins Directors: James Cameron Cast: Billy Zane, Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio More on this film
This chart, which covers box-office results for films from the last 100 years, suggests another epic romance, 1939's Gone With the Wind, is the true US champ. While the $198.7m taken by the American civil-war film, featuring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable as the celebrated lovers, represents only one third of Titanic's, the adjusted figure is $1.45bn, which dwarfs the $921.5m adjusted figure for Cameron's film.
Titanic now comes in behind 1977's Star Wars, 1965's The Sound of Music, 1982's ET: The Extra-Terrestrial, and even the 1956 Charlton Heston biblical epic The Ten Commandments. Perhaps more pertinently, Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, which was hailed as the saviour of Hollywood last year after it zoomed to No 2 in the all-time US box-office chart with $533.3m, does not even make it into the adjusted top 20.
Movies such as 2002's Spider-Man, 2003's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and 2006's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, all of which sit comfortably in the top 10 of the unaltered chart, are nowhere to be seen in the adjusted version, while old favourites like 1967's The Graduate, 1973's The Exorcist and 1965's Dr Zhivago make unexpected appearances.
The new chart was put together by analysts at Bloomberg, based on figures from the Box Office Mojo website.
The 3D science fiction epic romance ''Avatar'' has surpassed ''Titanic''—also by director James Cameron—as the highest-grossing international film of all time.

''Avatar'' has overtaken ''Titanic'' by a margin of more than 15 million US dollars, with both films grossing in excess of $1.843bn. The film has been the most popular film in box offices around North America and Europe for six weeks, with United Kingdom takings for this weekend alone in excess of £5.1m. In the United States, the film has pushed ''The Dark Knight'' into third place.

''Avatar'''s victory has been put down to the higher prices many viewers have had to pay to see the film in 3D, as well as inflation over time (as the figures have not been adjusted for such). If the figures are adjusted for inflation, it is beaten to the top spot by ''Gone with the Wind''. In the adjusted chart, ''Titanic'' makes it only to number six, with other members of the top ten including ''Star Wars'', ''The Sound of Music'', and ''E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial''.