Samuel L. Katz
2021HILLEMAN – A Perilous Quest to Save the World’s Children
Donald Rayne Mitchell
Maurice Hilleman, Anthony Fauci
A Perilous Quest to Save the World’s Children tells the inspiring story of Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman, a man with a singular, unwavering focus — to eliminate the diseases of children. From his poverty-stricken youth on the plains of Montana, he came to prevent pandemic flu, develop the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, and invent the first-ever vaccine against human cancer.
HILLEMAN – A Perilous Quest to Save the World’s Children
The Polio Crusade
Sarah Colt
Linda Hunt, Larry Becker
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.
The Polio Crusade
