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Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea is a film of genre Drama released in USA on 12 may 2007 with John Hannah

Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea (2007)

Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea
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Released in USA 12 may 2007
Length 1h30
Genres Drama,    War,    Documentary,    Historical
Rating68% 3.4378453.4378453.4378453.4378453.437845

Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea (also known as Lusitania: Murder on the Atlantic, in German: Der Untergang der Lusitania: Tragödie eines Luxusliners) is an English-German Docu-drama produced in 2007. This 90-minute film is a dramatization of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania on May 7, 1915 by a German U-boat, U-20. The outside filming was done in South Africa; the inside submarine scenes were filmed in Munich using the 25-year-old U-boat-model of the film Das Boot.



^ "Sinking of the Lusitania Cast & Crew". Hollywood.com. Retrieved August 6, 2012.

Synopsis

"Remember the Lusitania! Avenge the Lusitania!" These are the words that inspired many young US citizens to volunteer for service during the First World War. The sinking of this great British oceangoing liner provoked outrage around the world on an unprecedented scale. On May 7, 1915, a German torpedo sent the ship to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean in just 18 minutes—its speedy descent into the depths occurring far too fast for most of those aboard to make it to the lifeboats. Of the 1,962 passengers and crew on board, 1,200 were lost, including 94 children and, crucially, 128 US civilians, many of whom were prominent figures. President Woodrow Wilson's neutral stance started to crack. All over the country there were calls for the United States to take up arms against Germany. In many ways, the Lusitania tragedy was the major turning point of the Great War, and perhaps the single greatest factor that eventually brought the USA into the war in April 1917.

Actors

John Hannah

(Prof. Ian Holbourn)
Kenneth Cranham

(Captain Turner)
Ronald France
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