reside at the Indiana War Memorial Museum. In popular culture In a scene in the 1975 movie Jaws, one of the main characters, Quint, who is a survivor of the Indianapolis, recounts the sinking and shark attacks. This scene brought Indianapolis, and its sinking, into a much wider public spotlight 30 years after the original events occurred. The 1991 made-for-TV film, Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, stars Stacy Keach as Captain McVay. The 2016 film USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage, directed by Mario Van Peebles and starring Nicolas Cage, is based on the sinking of Indianapolis. See also List of U.S. Navy losses in World War II List of ships sunk by submarines by death toll List of United States Navy cruisers List of national memorials of the United States Notes References Sources Further reading Publishers Weekly Notable Book Award; Massachusetts Book Award . External links USS Indianapolis Museum official website USS Indianapolis Survivors Organization Another USS Indianapolis Survivors Organization Maritime Quest Indianapolis Pictures 1945 Kamikaze Damage Report – filed by Mare Island Naval Shipyard Allied Warships: USS Indianapolis (CA 35), Heavy cruiser of the Portland-class IndySurvivor.com – website and book by survivor Edgar Harrell, USMC Announcement of the Father Thomas Conway Memorial (June 2006). (At USS Indianapolis Museum official website, in the left-hand column, click on "2006 Museum Activities".) BBC Magazine USS Indianapolis (decked in flags) and the passenger liner Aquitania at the Statue of Liberty , a History Channel documentary Roll of Honor 1931 ships 2017 archaeological discoveries Congressional Gold Medal recipients Indianapolis Maritime incidents in July 1945 Monuments and memorials in Indiana National Memorials of the United States Portland-class cruisers Shark attacks Ships built by New York Shipbuilding Corporation Ships of the Aleutian Islands campaign Ships sunk by Japanese submarines Shipwreck discoveries by Paul Allen World War II cruisers of the United States World War II shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean