Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen (2009)
Drama illuminating Dr James Niven's efforts to protect the people of Manchester from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic as millions of soldiers returned home from the Great War.
- Date of release
- 2009-08-05
- TMDB
- 7.3 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 56m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Director
- Justin Hardy
Casting
- Mark Gatiss — Ernest Dunks
- Charlotte Riley — Peggy Lytton
- Bill Paterson — Dr James Niven
- Raffey Cassidy — Ellen
- Paul Freeman — Sir Arthur Newsholme
- Kenneth Cranham — MJ O'Loughlin
- Ian Mercer — Stanford
Interesting facts
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen is a 2009 television drama. It is a dramatization of Dr James Niven's attempts to deal with the Spanish flu, a 1918-1920 flu pandemic, in Manchester. It was written by Peter Harness and it starred Bill Paterson as Niven, along with Mark Gatiss, Kenneth Cranham and Charlotte Riley. It was first broadcast on BBC Four on 5 August 2009.
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