Release Date

25 Sep, 2018

Runtime

00:48: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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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Actors

Christopher Eccleston

Paul Birchard

Iain Davie

Jeremy Edwards

Kenny Fullwood

Amy Kennedy

Hannah Macphail

Isabel McClelland

Brian Pettifer

Allan Tall

Anita Vettesse

Finlay Welsh

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