About the film
Deadliest Crash: The Le Mans 1955 Disaster is a 1-hour documentary film made by Bigger Picture Films for the BBC in 2009. It was originally aired on BBC Four on Sunday, 16 May 2010, and was later repeated on BBC Two and BBC Four. The programme tells the story of the 1955 Le Mans disaster in which Pierre Levegh's Mercedes 300 SLR smashed into the crowd, killing 83 people and injuring 120 more.
It includes spectator photographs and film together with computer modelling of the track and the cars involved in the crash to analyse how it came to happen.
From the film's Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).