The story of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 after she was torpedoed off the Irish coast. The story is told from the perspective of Prof. Holbourn (a passenger), the German U-boat and its captain and crew, and other passengers, crew and Admiralty staff
John Hannah
as Prof. Ian Holbourn
Kenneth Cranham
as Captain Turner
Florian Panzner
as Lt. Capt. Schwieger
Michael Feast
as Captain Hobbs
Graham Hopkins
as Staff Captain Anderson
Adrian Topol
as Vogele
Madeleine Garrood
as Avis Dolphin
Frances Marek
as Alice
Martin Le Maitre
as Winston Churchill
Kevin Otto
as Alfred Vanderbilt
Karen Haacke
as Dorothy Taylor
Dean McCoubrey
as Capt. Windridge