The Flu That Killed 50 Million

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The Flu That Killed 50 Million (2018)

Directed by Andrew Thompson

Documentary, History · 48m

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.

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Cast

Christopher Eccleston Narrator Paul Birchard William Welch Iain Davie Ernest Gibson Jeremy Edwards Basil Hood
K
Kenny Fullwood Alexander Jamieson
A
Amy Kennedy Katherine Garvin
H
Hannah Macphail Ada Berry
I
Isabel McClelland Mary Dobson Brian Pettifer Victor Vaughan
A
Allan Tall James Niven Anita Vettesse Catherine MacFie Finlay Welsh Arthur Newsholme

Crew

Director
Andrew Thompson
Writer
Abigail Carr
Director of Photography
Tom Hayward
Editor
Clyde Wallbanks
Producer
Andrew Thompson

Details

Release date
2018-09-25
Runtime
48m
Genres
Documentary, History
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English, French