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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Mark Samels, Andrea Kalin, Ben Loeterman, Tracy Heather Strain, Jacqueline Shearer |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1998 |
| MANUFACTURER: | PBS Home Video |
| FEATURES: | NTSC |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 794054371734 |
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Customer Reviews of Influenza 1918: The American Experience
Very Interesting, Although . . . I saw this documentary when it came out on PBS several years ago. The individual accounts of the virus and its rapid spread were quite unsettling. I got a good sense of the public's panic as friends and relatives started dying. However, if you want a thorough account of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, I would suggest reading Gina Kolata's "Flu" and "The Forgotten Pandemic" (can't remember the author--sorry). There are other books out there as well.
Overall, I liked this documentary because it takes you back to a time when doctors and scientists were new to viruses. Recommended.
Disappointing
After much research on the influenza outbreak of 1918, I was looking forward to a nicely done synopsis (which is what the American experience usually does). This wasn't it. The video states as fact items that are not fact and ends the program in October, after the first wave of the flu, when a second wave came in late Nov/ early December. The personal narratives were wonderful, but I would reccomend viewing this video only AFTER gaining a broad knowledge of the epidemic, otherwise, it is doing a great disservice.