Title:DEATH BY MISADVENTURE ? - SS LUSITANIA [Main Title]
Film Number:MGH 306
Other titles:LUSITANIA (DEATH BY MISADVENTURE) [Alternative Title]
Summary: An account of the last voyage of the Cunard passenger liner Lusitania, examining the contemporary and continuing opinion that a major atrocity was committed in the sinking of the vessel in 1915, by U-boat U.20 with the loss of nearly 1,200 lives.
Description: The film uses both actuality and reconstructed material (although there is very little of the former), and interviews with survivors. The visual material is often only illustrative background to the arguments of the commentary, which concludes "By loading war materials onto passenger ships; by forcing U-boats to attack without warning; by failing to give protection, the sinking of a passenger liner was made inevitable. The ship happened to be the Lusitania. It wasn't just the Germans - it didn't just happen." In addition to this indictment of British responsibility, the film looks at the effects of the disaster in Britain and the USA, noting (in the words of Winston Churchill) that "in spite of all this horror" the sinking "was an event most important and favourable to the Allies."
Alternative Title:LUSITANIA (DEATH BY MISADVENTURE) [Alternative Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:
Object_Number:MGH 306
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1967-11-28
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Granada Television (Production company)
Grigsby, Michael (Production individual)
Grigsby, Michael (Production individual)
Wooller, Mike (Production individual)
Weiley, John (Production individual)
Leggo, Tony (Production individual)
Woods, Peter (Production individual)
Walker, Peter (Production individual)
Murray, Graham (Production individual)
Grimes, Michael (Production individual)
Naden, David (Production individual)
