Titanic media focusing on second-class passengers

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One thing I've noticed about Titanic media is that very little of it focuses on second-class passengers. It's always either first-class or third-class (probably more so first-class than third-class). You could probably blame James Cameron for that, although it's present in other media too. Are there any Titanic media that you know of that focuses on second-class passengers, either real ones or fictional ones? It can be anything - movies, TV shows, books etc.

https://youtu.be/dPAqttGXFaU?si=Q2Wrd0GMMmxIHEx8



The only Titanic movie worth watching.

This focuses on a cat:



With that being said, the movie Titanic is more about a love story than the actual tragedy. Documentaries probably do a better job when it comes to talking about the real event.

Second class on Titanic was billed as being equivalent to First class on other liners. It was still pretty luxurious for the time. I suspect the reason they don't get much attention in dramatic depictions is that they wouldn't have looked or acted much different to the first class passengers in dress or accomodation/restaurants whereas the difference between the upper classes and steerage were very obvious.

That is true, although there was some stuff that only the first-class passengers could access, such as the Turkish baths, the gymnasium, the pool, and the ballroom. Second-class passengers couldn't bring pets on the ship - only first-class passengers could. However, they could access the top deck, which third-class passengers could not.

On a somewhat unrelated note, one thing that always surprised me about the Titanic was that there were very few children in first-class. There were 24 children in second-class and many more in third-class, but only six children in first-class. (There were a couple of teenagers in first-class, but they were counted as adults.)