Titanic: Blood & Steel
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| Genre |
Historical fiction Miniseries |
| Screenplay by | Mark Skeet Matthew Faulk Stefano Voltaggio Alan Whiting Francesca Brill |
| Story by | Mark Skeet Matthew Faulk Stefano Voltaggio Ciaran Donnelly |
| Directed by | Ciaran Donnelly |
| Starring | |
| Theme music composer | Maurizio de Angelis |
| Country of origin | France Italy Canada Ireland |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
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| Producer(s) | Guido de Angelis |
| Cinematography | James Welland |
| Running time | 634 minutes |
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| Distributor | Tandem Communications |
| Budget | $30 million |
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| Original network | History Asia |
| Original release | May 13 – July 29, 2012 |
Titanic: Blood and Steel is a 12-part television costume drama series about the construction of the RMS Titanic. Produced by History Asia, it is one of two large budget television dramas aired in (April) 2012, the centenary of the disaster; the other is Titanic.
The series premiered in Germany and Denmark on April 15, 2012, in Italy on April 22, 2012 and in France in December 2012. Part of filming took place in Serbia, where it aired beginning September 9, 2012. In Canada, it began to air September 19, 2012 on CBC. It was aired in the United States as a six-part mini-series with two episodes back-to-back from October 8, 2012 until October 13, 2012 on Encore.
The series follows the lives of the people who made the Titanic, from the workers who built it to its rich financiers. Dr. Mark Muir, an engineer and metallurgist, convinces American tycoon J.P. Morgan to hire him for the biggest shipping project in the world, the construction of the RMS Titanic at Belfast's Harland and Wolff shipyard. Mark is, in truth, a Belfast native born Marcus Malone. Now, with a new name and identity, he tries to hide his heritage from his employers, as he is Catholic and his employers, the Protestant elite that rule Belfast, dislike Catholics.
While working there, Mark falls in love with Sofia Silvestri, an Italian immigrant. However, during the construction of the Titanic, tensions rise between the lower-class workers and the rich elite. More setbacks stall the construction: Harland and Wolff want to save costs and use cheaper materials, the workers wish to form a trade union, the women suffrage movement heats up in the UK, and the pro Home Rule and pro-Unionist groups battle each other. Mark attempts to deal with these while trying to escape his past.
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