First-Time Viewing

Remember the Sultana

Release Date:April 27, 2018

Running Time:96 min

Genres:History, Documentary

Directors

Mark Marshall Mike Marshall

Cast

Sean Astin Mackenzie Astin Jim Beaver Bob Bergen Leah Ann Cevoli Jim Cummings Matthew Jayson Cwern

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

Over 2000 Union soldiers, passengers and crew were crammed aboard the steamboat Sultana, licensed to carry 376. Graft, greed, overcrowding, a poorly maintained boat, and the Mississippi River was swollen with spring snowmelt conspired together to create a disaster. On April 27, 1865, the boat’s boilers exploded, causing the worst maritime disaster in US history.

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