The Flu That Killed 50 Million (2018)
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
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Christopher Eccleston as Narrator |
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Paul Birchard as William Welch |
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Iain Davie as Ernest Gibson |
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Jeremy Edwards as Basil Hood |
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Kenny Fullwood as Alexander Jamieson |
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Amy Kennedy as Katherine Garvin |
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Hannah Macphail as Ada Berry |
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Isabel McClelland as Mary Dobson |
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Brian Pettifer as Victor Vaughan |
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Allan Tall as James Niven |
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Anita Vettesse as Catherine MacFie |
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Finlay Welsh as Arthur Newsholme |
| Production | Andrew Thompson | Producer |
| Production | Richard Bright | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Abigail Carr | Writer |
| Directing | Andrew Thompson | Director |
| Editing | Clyde Wallbanks | Editor |
| Camera | Tom Hayward | Director of Photography |
