The Flu That Killed 50 Million
2018•48m•6.1•Released
DocumentaryHistory
It is 1918 and the end of WWI. Millions have died, and the world is exhausted by war. But soon a new horror is sweeping the world, a terrifying virus that will kill more than fifty million people - the Spanish flu. Using dramatic reconstruction and eyewitness testimony from doctors, soldiers, civilians and politicians, this one-off special brings to life the onslaught of the disease, the horrors of those who lived through it and the efforts of the pioneering scientists desperately looking for the cure. Narrated by Christopher Eccleston, the film also asks whether, a century later, the lessons learnt in 1918 might help us fight a future global flu pandemic.
Director
Andrew Thompson
Writer
Abigail Carr
Languages
English, French
Cast
Christopher Eccleston
Narrator
Paul Birchard
William Welch
Iain Davie
Ernest Gibson
Jeremy Edwards
Basil Hood
Kenny Fullwood
Alexander Jamieson
Amy Kennedy
Katherine Garvin
Hannah Macphail
Ada Berry
Isabel McClelland
Mary Dobson
Brian Pettifer
Victor Vaughan
Allan Tall
James Niven
Anita Vettesse
Catherine MacFie
Finlay Welsh
Arthur Newsholme
Production
Producer
Andrew Thompson
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