I found this film to be a very different kind of Titanic movie. While I will not say that I liked this film as much as James Cameron's "Titanic," I do have to say that I liked it tremendously and found it to be a totally different experience altogether.This film is all about the people! If I had to break this down I'd say this film is 80% about the people and characters that made up the gilded age and 20% about the historical facts and events that were the Titanic tragedy itself. That said, it in no way deterred me from enjoying the film. I found it fascinating engaging, interesting, and all around fantastic!This Titanic film is very much a ensemble film. I mean seriously the cast is enormous. One downside of the film is that during the initial hour of the film it can be a bit difficult to keep track of who is who and who works for who and so on. That said the film focuses on all three classes.The Earl of Manton is traveling with his wife and daughter in 1st Class. In the first hour of the film we get to see their experience on the ship and their various interactions with both historical and fictional characters aboard the Titanic. Here in this hour of the film this rendition of the Titanic shines. We are able to get more of the stories of Benjamin Guggenheim and his mistress Madame Aubar, Jack Thayer, John Jacob Astor, Dorothy Gibson, and Harry Elkins Widener. The character of Lady Manton is initially unlikeable as she exudes the snobbery that was that particular time period. This is especially clear in her constantly bringing class in to just about every scene that she is in. Lady Manton's husband however is portrayed in a much more self aware and heroic light.The film also delves into a fairly ignored group on the Titanic and that is the first class servants and their various interactions with their employers and each other. I found the story between the Manton's servants to be quite moving and yet beautifully subtle. On that same token the film also focuses on another group of people often ignored by Titanic films, White Star Line employees who were not seamen. The film does this through the experiences of first class server Paolo Sandrini, Italian stoker Mario Sandrini, and 2nd class Stewardess Annie Desmond. Through their stories, the audience is given a glimpse as to what it would have been like to work on the Titanic. Paolo is a romantic dreamer and Annie is very much a practical pleasant person who doesn't believe in envy. These two have a beautiful love story that is probably the strongest in the series.John Batley and his wife Muriel give us the second class point of view, another group often ignored in most Titanic films. Batley is a employee of the Earl of Manton and very much a unassertive person and his wife Muriel more than makes up for this. She comes off as a very angry woman whose terribly unhappy with her position in life and detests the modern class structure.In Steerage, the film portrays the Maloney family who are moving from Ireland to New York to escape the religious persecution they were exposed to as Catholics in Ireland (at least that's what I gathered). Jim is in charge of the Titanic's electrical wiring and is given free passage for his wife Mary and their children (I think they had 4 maybe 5). To be very honest I found their story to be the weakest and most convoluted by "soapiness." Their story straightforward was powerful enough, but it gets muddied by Mary's wandering eye to another third class passenger, Peter. Peter is not just any normal passenger, he is lifted right out of history. Peter is "Peter The Painter." A historical figure lifted right out of the headlines of the time (definitely a bit of a unnecessary stretch).So the movie itself I found to be quite effective and beautiful. Is it historically accurate? Definitely not 100%, but what Titanic movie is? Did Harry Elkins Widener actually have a romance with a woman aboard the Titanic? Who knows for certain, but it's definitely not historically documented. That said, Widener's romance with Georgiana was entertaining and emotionally engaging and also gave the writer the opportunity to display some facets of what is known about Widener's personality. After seeing the film, I researched him and actually found him to be a very interesting character in history during both his life and after his death.Were Steerage passengers barricaded down below? Quite frankly, no one knows for certain one way or the other and depending on what you read or see you get a different point of view. The fact is we do not know what every single person was doing on that ship 24/7, so taking some degree of artistic liberty when making a MOVIE and I stress the word again...A MOVIE...is not the worst thing ever. Pretty much every Titanic film, even the much beloved film, "A Night To Remember," had too.The sinking of the ship is portrayed beautifully. We get to see the sinking in a manner that I have yet to see prior and that's the view of the ship's final moments from the perspective of someone in the water. It's effective and looked quite realistic.The Blu-Ray and DVD both have beautiful picture quiality and the special features are interesting. The documentary focuses mostly on the Titanic's sister ship Britannic, its sinking, and dives to the wreck.So I will say this, if you're a Titanic fan and you can enjoy the movie for the characters and not let every little historical inaccuracy drive you nuts (and I'm not saying that there are a ton because there's not) then get this movie and sit down and enjoy it! Fans of the Cameron film will simply find many more enjoyable perspectives to a story that they already know.