| Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea | |
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| Created by | Coproduction of Smithson Productions and NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk), commissioned by BBC1, Discovery Channel, M6 and Channel International |
| Written by | Sarah Williams[1] |
| Directed by | Christopher Spencer |
| Starring | John Hannah Kenneth Cranham Florian Panzner |
| Theme music composer | Ben Bartlett |
| Country of origin | England/Germany |
| Original language | English/German |
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| Producer | Martin Davidson |
| Editor | Colin Goudie |
| Running time | 90 min |
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| Network | Various channels |
| Release | 13 May 2007 |
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.
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.
