While there is a surprisingly large number of historically real characters and situations, much of the drama is heavily fictionalized, and other supporting characters are tossed into history to keep things freshly dramatic such as the New York Times Writer, Joanna Yaeger (Neve Campbell). These class issues become front and center when Jim Larkin (Liam Cunningham) comes in to champion the working class. The story not only revolves around the building of the ship but the people who built it, mostly dealing with the various class distinctions, both socially and religious, creating a unique parallel of Protestants vs.

Morgan (Chris Noth), Sofia (Alessandro Mastronardi), the prerequisite love interest, and the ship architect, Thomas Andrews (Billy Carter). Muir will soon find himself working with various other individuals such as Lord Pirrie (Derek Jacobi), J.P. Mark Muir (Kevin Zegers) who joins the ranks at Harland and Wolff in Belfast to research and create the new steel that will be used for the new White Star ships. The timeline is quite thorough as we begin at the beginning with metallurgist, Dr. Much like Cameron’s opus, this miniseries blends real-life characters and events with fictionalized trappings to create a more compelling and entertaining drama lest the series devolve into a how-to-build-a-boat documentary.

Lord knows James Cameron has released enough versions of his fictionalized account of the disaster-turned-love-story, but Titantic: Blood & Steel takes a more profound, and in my opinion, far more interesting look at the creation of this infamous ship in this 3-disc set that brings all 634 minutes of the original miniseries to stunning Blu-ray. It’s a safe bet that everyone knows the tragic story of the sinking of the Titanic by now.

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