Over the years numerous movies have depicted Titanic's maiden voyage and her sinking. All have shown passengers wearing lifebelts, from the 1912 silent film Saved from the Titanic to James Cameron's epic 1997 blockbuster TITANIC.

Sometimes these lifebelts were used in other clips and films too. Examples from Raise the Titanic can be seen in the Titanic clip from No Greater Love and the 1996 Titanic miniseries.

In late 1997 James Cameron's ambitious movie  TITANIC was released. Hundreds of lifebelts were produced for this motion picture but they were considerably larger than the actual lifebelts because people today are generally larger and taller than they were back in 1912.

In the five-part series Rebuilding the Titanic or We Built the Titanic (2011-2012) a charismatic team of four experts recreated sections of history's most famous ship. Using 100-year-old methods they investigated the lives and processes of those who built before them.

The last episode of the series was titled "Preparing for Disaster" or “Safety”. In this episode, one of the team members visits the  Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool to view and take measurements from their Titanic lifebelt (donated by Mr. Ernest St. Clair) in order to recreate his own lifebelt which was subsequently tested at the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's training centre.

In 2014 Radford Polinsky, an expert tailor, made about a dozen replica lifebelts for the Hollywood prop supplier History for Hire. He used measurements taken from an original example in order to make the most accurate template possible while remaining as historically accurate as was practicable. He however used a foam substitute for the heavy and cumbersome original cork to prevent injury to actors if jumping into water.