Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen (2009)

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UK

Short Television Film

Director: Justin Hardy

Writers: Peter Harness, Peter Guinness

Cinematographer: Douglas Hartington

Cast: Bill Paterson, Mark Gatiss, Paul Freeman, Kenneth Cranham, Charlotte Riley, Olwen May, Jamie Spencer

Dr. James Niven, a Scots medical health officer in Manchester, battles manfully against the forces of politics and commerce to shut down his adopted home city to prevent the spread of the titular virus, which claimed more than 70 million victims worldwide at the close of The First World War, in this beautifully crafted and terribly affecting fact-based television drama. Iain.Stott