Titanic: Birth of a Legend

Outstanding Docu-drama
This docu-drama is far better than the fictional miniseries along the same lines, "Titanic: Blood and Steel." The docu-drama has been edited much more closely and has a tight-knit pace to it. "Titanic: Blood and Steel," on the other hand, is a ponderous soap opera dominated by endless bickering and unpleasantness. Both productions show how the labor and political unrest in Belfast influenced building of the ship and perhaps lent to its faulty completion. Nevertheless, the docu-drama, masterfully narrated by Charles Dance, tells us the story without the use of characters who either didn't exist or whose fate we don't care about.

Each of the good documentaries on Titanic seems to give us information and clues to the ship's sinking that we may not have heard about before. "Titanic: Birth of a Legend" is no exception in this regard. Lord Pirrie was the head of Harlan & Wolf, Titanic's ship builder. Apparently, he above anyone else was responsible for the decision to...

Titanic: Birth of a Legend
I have always been a Titanic fan. So naturally how it was constructed appealed to me. This was an excellent documentary.

I wished it continued
I enjoyed the series a lot but some of the smaller stories were not carried well (being a German spy).

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