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The Marchioness Disaster (2008)

NR | Nov 01, 2008 (GB) | TV Movie | 01:35

A factual reconstruction of the events leading up to, during and after the Marchioness was struck by the Bow Belle Dredger on the river Thames in August 1989, which killed over 50 people. The film was due to be broadcast by ITV in 2007 but complaints from some of the families of the victims led to it being withdrawn ahead of transmission. It has never been broadcast in the UK, but has been screened in France.

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John Benfield
Peter Butcher
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Robert Daws
Cannon John Jeffrey
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Alex McGettigan
Lawrence Dallaglio
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Peter Lorenzelli
Vincent Dallaglio
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Barbara Flynn
Eileen Dallaglio
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John Salthouse
John Perks
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Heather Tobias
Marie Perks
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Sophia Di Martino
Erika Spotswood
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Ellen Thomas
Linda Hunt
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Charley Speed
Stephen Perks

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