Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Poseidon is Wolfgang Petersen's 2006 disaster thriller about a group of passengers who must claw their way up through a capsized luxury liner after a rogue wave turns their New Year's celebration into a fight for survival.
What is Poseidon about?
It is New Year's Eve aboard the Poseidon, a vast ocean liner crossing the mid-Atlantic, when a towering rogue wave slams into the ship and rolls it over. Trapped in the overturned hull with the vessel slowly flooding, a small group of survivors refuses to wait for a rescue that may never come. Led by a self-reliant former firefighter and a professional gambler, they choose to climb toward the bottom of the ship — now the only way up — pushing through flooded corridors, twisted wreckage and dwindling air. Every choice narrows the odds as the water keeps rising behind them.
Cast & crew
The ensemble is led by Josh Lucas and Kurt Russell, with Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum, Jacinda Barrett, Mike Vogel and Mía Maestro among the passengers. Wolfgang Petersen directs.
Context & significance
Released in 2006, Poseidon is director Wolfgang Petersen's large-scale reimagining of the classic 1972 shipboard survival story The Poseidon Adventure. It trades character back-story for near-constant momentum, staging its set pieces inside a sinking, upside-down ship where every room is an obstacle. Petersen, long associated with tense water-bound filmmaking, leans on effects-driven spectacle and a race-against-the-clock structure rather than slow build-up. For K-Time viewers who enjoy survival and disaster thrillers, it delivers a compact, high-stakes ride, and this page outlines the premise without giving away who makes it out.
Where & how to watch
Poseidon is available to stream on K-Time with Persian subtitles. The page you are reading is free, and starting playback simply asks you to sign in with a free K-Time account. K-Time's Farsi-first interface lets Persian-speaking viewers find the film, switch on subtitles and continue watching across their devices with ease.