The Flu That Killed 50 Million
Released: September 25, 2018Runtime: 48 min
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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- Christopher Ecclestonas Narrator
- Wendy Barclayas Self - Professor - Imperial College London
- Catharine Arnoldas Self - Author of 'Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History'
- Mark Harrisonas Self - Professor - University of Oxford
- Mark Honigsbaumas Self - Lecturer at City University of London
- Michael Bresalieras Self - Lecturer in the History of Medicine - Swansea University
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Christopher Eccleston
as Narrator
Wendy Barclay
as Self - Professor - Imperial College London
Catharine Arnold
as Self - Author of 'Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History'
Mark Harrison
as Self - Professor - University of Oxford
Mark Honigsbaum
as Self - Lecturer at City University of London
Michael Bresalier
as Self - Lecturer in the History of Medicine - Swansea University
Paul Birchard
as William Welch
Iain Davie
as Ernest Gibson
Jeremy Edwards
as Basil Hood
Kenny Fullwood
as Alexander Jamieson
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