The 1998 PBS American Experience documentary on this pandemic is more from a subjective point of view, full of personal anecdotes. This one starts out with personal anecdotes, because that is usually how you grab someone's attention - with real stories of human tragedy. And it does tell the tale so often talked about in relation to the 1918 pandemic - the tragedy of mass death in Philadelphia and why the flu hit so hard there.
Then the documentary segues into a story of native people and how they were effected, and in particular, one tribe of Eskimos in which 72 of the 80 members died of the flu and were buried in one mass grave. Because this grave was in the permafrost, and thus the bodies preserved, this starts the scientific part of the documentary as one medical student in Sweden travels to Alaska in 1951 in search of unraveling the mystery of the virus that caused the pandemic.
Well narrated By S. Epatha Merkerson, it includes a couple of scenes with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Produced by the Department of Health and Human Services, it was probably made in response to the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic. There were parallels to that epidemic and the 1918 epidemic - younger people were effected in both cases where older people seemed to have some immunity.
It's definitely worth an hour of your time.
Then the documentary segues into a story of native people and how they were effected, and in particular, one tribe of Eskimos in which 72 of the 80 members died of the flu and were buried in one mass grave. Because this grave was in the permafrost, and thus the bodies preserved, this starts the scientific part of the documentary as one medical student in Sweden travels to Alaska in 1951 in search of unraveling the mystery of the virus that caused the pandemic.
Well narrated By S. Epatha Merkerson, it includes a couple of scenes with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Produced by the Department of Health and Human Services, it was probably made in response to the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic. There were parallels to that epidemic and the 1918 epidemic - younger people were effected in both cases where older people seemed to have some immunity.
It's definitely worth an hour of your time.