13 May 2011
Ein Lied für Europa
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The Flu That Killed 50 Million
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.
Top Billed 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
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