BBC

Broadcast: August 2009

Director: Justin Hardy

Certificate: Unrated

Spanish Flu: Forgotten Fallen follows one doctor’s pioneering efforts to protect the people of Manchester from the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic. Set against the background of the Armistice in November 1918, as millions of exhausted soldiers return home from the Great War, the film tells the little-known story of Dr James Niven, Manchester’s medical health officer, and his heroic efforts to combat a second wave of fatal influenza as it spreads across the UK.