Name: Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
Released: 2025-01-02T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Colin Firth, Catherine McCormack, Sam Troughton

TV Show · Drama · History

On the night of 21 December 1988, Pan Am 103 crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people and beginning a complex, long-running investigation to find the truth into the deadliest terror attack in Britain.

2025 · 1h 1m

Starring Colin Firth, Catherine McCormack, Sam Troughton

Director Otto Bathurst

EPISODE 1

101

As the families of those on board flight Pan Am 103 learn that the passenger plane has crashed over Lockerbie, killing 270, a terrorism investigation tries to find out what happened.

1h 1m
EPISODE 2

102

While forensic evidence suggests the prime suspects for the bombing of Pan Am 103 are a Palestinian terror group funded by Iran, Scottish and FBI investigators are eventually led elsewhere.

54m
EPISODE 3

103

The CIA hands over a Libyan double agent who provides crucial evidence needed to bring the two bombing suspects to court, but the key witness changes his story as the trial gets underway.

56m
EPISODE 4

104

The court makes a shock verdict that leaves the victims' families unsatisfied and casts doubt on the decision, but 34 years would pass since the bombing before the US apprehends a new suspect.

48m
EPISODE 5

105

Jim is left at a loss when Megrahi gives up his appeal in return for release on compassionate grounds; questioning everything he has come to believe, Jim wonders if he will ever know the truth.

49m