The Polio Crusade
About The Polio Crusade
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…
Sarah Colt's The Polio Crusade is a 2009 documentary history film. At 55 minutes long, it arrived in February 2009.
Linda Hunt takes the lead as Self - Narrator (voice), Larry Becker as Self, Kathryn Black as Self, and Betty Cook Brown as Self. Written by Sarah Colt.
Members will find disease, health, american experience, and vaccine in it. It streams on PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel in the United States.
Contagion and The Invasion make useful companions to The Polio Crusade.