Lockerbie: A Search for Truth (2025)
Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie 38 minutes after takeoff on Dec. 21, 1988, killing 259 on board and 11 on ground. Dr. Jim Swire loses daughter Flora and seeks justice with wife Jane.
Cast: Colin Firth, Harry Redding, Jemma Carlton, Catherine McCormack, Claire Brown, Sam Troughton, Rosanna Adams, Hiftu Quasem, Robert Cavanah, Anton Valensi, Ghazi Al Ruffai, Frank Crudele, Robin Laing, Simon Delaney, Darren Strange, Maxine Evans, Roger Barclay, Ardalan Esmaili
Episode 5
It’s now 2009, over 21 years since the bombing, and Jim is left at a loss when Megrahi gives up on his appeal attempt. In return, the sickly Megrahi is released on compassionate grounds. Questioning everything he has come to believe, Jim wonders if he’ll ever know the truth about what happened.
Episode 4
After coming to believe the authorities have got the wrong man behind the bombing, Jim grows closer to the convicted Abdelbaset al-Megrahi. Soon, he embeds himself within Megrahi’s appeal case, as well as the conspiracy theories swirling around it. But by doing so, Jim finds himself increasingly isolated from his family.
Episode 3
Jumping forward to 2000 and the Lockerbie trial finally begins after 12 long years. But as the trial begins at Camp Zeist, a former US military base in Utrecht, The Netherlands, Jim begins to question the official evidence against the suspects. Have they got the right men for the crime?
Episode 2
As Jim continues his campaign for truth and justice, two suspects are indicted for the bombing, and his focus shifts to bring the men to trial.
Episode 1
When Jim Swire discovers his daughter has been killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, he begins to search for answers.