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Overview
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Sarah Williams (writer) and
Diana Preston (book)
Release Date:
12 May 2007 (USA) more
Genre:
Documentary | Drama | History | War more
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Politics Vs History more (8 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | John Hannah | ... | Prof. Ian Holbourn |
 | Kenneth Cranham | ... | Captain Turner |
 | Florian Panzner | ... | Lt. Capt. Schwieger (as Florian Panzer) |
| Michael Feast | ... | Captain Hobbs |
| Graham Hopkins | ... | Staff Capt. Anderson |
| Madeleine Garrood | ... | Avis Dolphin (as Maddeleine Garrood) |
| Frances Marek | ... | Alice |
| Adrian Topol | ... | Vogele |
| Martin Le Maitre | ... | Winston Churchill |
| Kevin Otto | ... | Alfred Vanderbilt |
 | Karen Haacke | ... | Dorothy Taylor |
| Dean McCoubrey | ... | Capt. Windridge |
| Andre Weideman | ... | Johnston (as Andre Weiderman) |
| Ronald France | ... | Lord Mersey |
| Steven Jennings | ... | Carson |
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Also Known As:
Der Untergang der Lusitania - Tragödie eines Luxusliners (Germany)
Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea (USA)
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90 min
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1.78 : 1 more
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The U-20 set was the original U-96 set used in Das Boot (1981). The Type U-19 of World War I and Type VIIC of World War II had similar internal dimensions. more
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Continuity: The lookout proclaims that the torpedo is closing on the starboard bow (the Lusitania was hit on the starboard side). However, when Professor Holbourn and others go to see it coming, the smokestack is tilted as though they are looking for the torpedo on the port side. more
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Why did so few children survive?Did people survive for several hours in the water?
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In this event Politics won. This is what we have to come call a "docu-drama" the telling of a story within an actual historical event.
In this case the event was the sinking of the liner RMS Lusitania on the 7th May 1915 by the German submarine SMS U-20. 1,198 passengers and crew were killed and the outcry against Germans was resounding and loud, especially in the then neutral US.
Even against the backdrop of the horrors of WWI it was big news and yet it has largely faded in favour of the Western Front or Gallipoli when WWI is reviewed. So this film should have been interesting and informative. However what we got was a fantasy that would have made the dead turn in their graves.
Those "right-on" chaps at the BBC who made this rubbish probably had this discussion first.
Producer "I don't like the Iraq war so I want to make a film that shows I don't. So I am going to tell the tale of the Lustiania.
Editor "Err OK, but wasn't she sunk by the Germans?"
Producer "Yes but we can have a German sailor with a conscience which will absolve them of any blame"
Editor "Err OK, but was't she off her advised course?"
Producer "Yes,but we will make up a reason and make the Captain a sympathetic guy picked on by the evil government (Dr Kelly anyone?) trying to cover up the fact she was carrying munitions"
Editor "Err OK, but hasn't it been proved by the survivors, manifests of the cargo from New York and by modern divers to the wreck that an ammunition explosion didn't happen? And anyway its was illegal to torpedo the liner without warning first?"
Producer "Yes, but we will just follow German propaganda at the time and at the end of the film tell everyone in writing we just made that bit up!"
Editor "How do we blame the government to make the viewer understand they shouldn't support the Iraq War?"
Producer "We show imagined conversations between Churchill and a captain who wanted the Lusitania sunk. We make the view believe the liner was routed into the path of U20 in order for her to be torpedoed, we don't tell them the admiralty were sending two destroyers at speed to escort her, we make it like their was only one U Boat in British waters, we don't tell them the Germans altered the U20s log ...
Editor "But if viewers are stupid enough to believe this made up tosh as accurate history how do we get them to link it to the situation in Iraq?"
Producer "Simple at the end of the film the lead character turns to camera as tells the viewer that he was betrayed by his government.
If the BBC want to make political points (and they increasingly do) than that's their affair. But for them to twist and invent historical fact to do it is disgraceful. Poor.