
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.
Directed by Andrew Thompson
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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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