Review of Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea

Nobody makes a costume drama like the BBC and this one is no exception, with the use of real Germans speaking real German to represent the submarine crew being a brilliant touch. However, for whatever reason the movie cleary had a political axe to grind and shouldn't be taken as a serious historical piece. In particular the discussions between Churhill and his navy adviser about the need to sacrifice the ship to draw the American's into the war is clearly fiction being represented as fact. To my knowledge nobody has positively confirmed that these conversations ever happened and does anybody seriously believe that they would be on the public record if they had? Watch the movie for entertainment and to get an appreciation of the horror of war, but don't take it as a defacto history book.