Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea (2007)

Original title

Lusitania: Murder on the Atlantic

Directed by

Christopher Spencer

Genre

documentary film, disaster film

Country

Germany, United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This docudrama shows the 1915 sinking of the ocean liner RMS Lusitania after a German submarine attack. It follows passengers and crew on board and the German U-boat crew as the disaster unfolds.

tensesomberhistoricalvisceralunderstatedslow-burnbleaktragic

What happens

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 a British-German Made-for-TV 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. 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 the 1981 West German war film Das Boot. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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