Remember the Sultana

Remember the Sultana

96 mins | Documentary | March 1, 2018

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.

Remember the Sultana

96 mins | Documentary | March 1, 2018

Remember the Sultana
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.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers River Rock Entertainment LLC, Purple Ace Productions
Original title Remember the Sultana
Directors Mike Marshall, Mark Marshall
Writers Brendan Hedges

Cast

Sean Astin

as Narrator

Mackenzie Astin

as Captain J. Walter Elliott / Private George Clarkson (voice)

Jim Beaver

as Joseph Taylor Elliott / First Engineering Officer Nathaniel Wintringer (voice)

Bob Bergen

as Captain Louis Rosché / Pleasant Marion Keeble (voice)

Leah Ann Cevoli

as Eliza Frances 'Fanny' Andrews (voice)

Jim Cummings

as Sergeant Alexander C. Brown / Sergeant William Fies (voice)

Matthew Jayson Cwern

as Lieutenant John Clark Ely / Private William Wendt (voice) (as Matt Jayson)