The Polio Crusade
A time when Americans banded together to conquer a terrible disease
The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf while scientists raced to eradicate this dreaded disease. Based in part on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky, Features interviews with historians, scientists, polio survivors, and the only surviving scientist from the core research team that developed the Salk vaccine, Julius Youngner.
You may like
Cold War Roadshow
The French Revolution
Sniper: Bulletproof
The Rise & Fall of Penn Station
Theory and Practice: Conversations with Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn
Planet Food: Spice Trails
Ottoman Empire: The War Machine
Deadliest Crash: The Le Mans 1955 Disaster
Salvador (Puig Antich)
The Vaccine: Conquering COVID
Pencils Down! The 100 Days of the Writers Guild Strike
State of Hate: The Explosion of White Supremacy
Intelligent Trees
Lost Heroes
An Inconvenient Truth
Adolphe Appia Visionary of Invisible
The mRNA Revolution
Agora
Red Army
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
Directed by John Ford
A Decade Under the Influence
The Class of ‘92
Champs