The flu that killed 50 million / produced & directed by Andrew Thompson ; BBC Studios, Pacific Quay Productions.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Thompson, Andrew (Television producer and director), director, producer.

Eccleston, Christopher, narrator.

Pacific Quay Productions, production company.

BBC Studios, production company.

BBC Worldwide Ltd., film distributor.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919.

Influenza.

Public health.

Epidemics.

Communicable diseases.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (49 minutes)

Place of Publication:

London, England : BBC Worldwide, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

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.

Participant:

Narrator, Christopher Eccelston.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed February 16, 2021).

Originally produced in 2018.

OCLC:

1241538814