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There has been numerous documentaries and "theories" about the Titanic sinking.
As mentioned, the owners wanted the "Blue Ribbon" and pushed the captain to achieve this. The captain, in his turn lain a course too far north as he wanted to avoid the Gulf Stream. Needless to say, that is "suicide" in April as there is a significant risk of ice bergs at that time of the year.
On the other hand, the impact itself was not, and should not be, fatal for the ship as such. However, in order to save cost, the building yard had used plates and nails of poorer quality steel than specified. This led to a brittler steel in cold water, which, when on impact, made the nails to snap and the hull plates to crack like glass.
Had there been used high tensile construction steel, the plates (according to theory) should only had been deformed or "bent", and not crushed like glass.
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