The Flu That Killed 50 Million
2018 · Movie · 48 min · ★ 5.9
A terrifying virus. The world in panic. Scientists battling for a cure. Sounds like 2020 - but it's 1918. This one-off special brings to life the onslaught of the Spanish flu that would kill three times more people than the Great War that preceded it. What lessons does this horrifying pandemic teach us? And could the deadly spread of coronavirus have been avoided if we had heeded them?
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Details
- Years
- 2018
- Release date
- 2018-09-25
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 48 min
- TMDB rating
- 5.9/10 (6 votes)
Themes
- flu
- disease
Cast & crew
Christopher Eccleston
as Narrator
Paul Birchard
as William Welch
Iain Davie
as Ernest Gibson
Jeremy Edwards
as Basil Hood
- KF
Kenny Fullwood
as Alexander Jamieson
- AK
Amy Kennedy
as Katherine Garvin
- HM
Hannah Macphail
as Ada Berry
- IM
Isabel McClelland
as Mary Dobson
Brian Pettifer
as Victor Vaughan
- AT
Allan Tall
as James Niven
Directed by Andrew Thompson