<p>The Spanish Flu didn’t come from Spain, but wartime censorship elsewhere meant that Spain was the only country in Europe openly reporting deaths from the world’s worst ever pandemic virus. At the end of its one year rampage the Spanish Flu had killed 50-100 million people. So where did it really come from? And 100 years on is it still lurking among us? </p>

The Spanish Flu didn’t come from Spain, but wartime censorship elsewhere meant that Spain was the only country in Europe openly reporting deaths from the world’s worst ever pandemic virus. At the end of its one year rampage the Spanish Flu had killed 50-100 million people. So where did it really come from? And 100 years on is it still lurking among us?

<p>The Spanish Flu didn’t come from Spain, but wartime censorship elsewhere meant that Spain was the only country in Europe openly reporting deaths from the world’s worst ever pandemic virus. At the end of its one year rampage the Spanish Flu had killed 50-100 million people. So where did it really come from? And 100 years on is it still lurking among us?&nbsp;</p>

The Year Episode 3: Dr. Stephens & The Spanish Flu

Oscar winning filmmaker Hugh Welchman (most recently writer/director of Loving Vincent, a fully hand painted film about Vincent van Gogh) takes you on a journey through THE YEAR - 100 years ago, a year that made our world what it is today more than any other, 1918-1919. 12 original stories from 12 remarkable months in the aftermath of World War One.

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The Year Episode 3: Dr. Stephens & The Spanish Flu

The Year Episode 3: Dr. Stephens & The Spanish Flu