Remember the Sultana (2018)

6.5

Documentary History

96 min min

2018

Sean Astin Mackenzie Astin Jim Beaver Bob Bergen Leah Ann Cevoli

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.