Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea

Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea (also known as Lusitania: Murder on the Atlantic, and, in German: Der Untergang der Lusitania: Tragödie eines Luxusliners) is an English-German docu-drama produced in 2007. This 90-minute film is a dramatisation of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat, U-20.

Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea
Created byCoproduction of Smithson Productions and NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk), commissioned by BBC1, Discovery Channel, M6 and Channel International
Written bySarah Williams[1]
Directed byChristopher Spencer
StarringJohn Hannah
Kenneth Cranham
Florian Panzner
Theme music composerBen Bartlett
Country of originEngland/Germany
Original languageEnglish/German
Production
ProducerMartin Davidson
EditorColin Goudie
Running time90 min
Release
Original networkVarious channels
Original release13 May 2007 (2007-05-13)

The Lusitania scenes were filmed with full-scale sections of the ship off the coast of South Africa while the U-20 scenes were filmed at Bavaria Studios in Munich using the then-newly refurbished 25-year-old U-boat set, studio model and full-size prop originally built for Das Boot.

Full cast

RMS Lusitania

U-20

British Admiralty

Other

Television premiere

It aired on the Discovery channel in the US on 13 May, on BBC 1 in the UK on 27 May 2007, in Germany on 28 December 2008 on ARD and on ABC1 in Australia on 11 January 2009 and the History Channel in New Zealand on 3 February 2009

References

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