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