Exclusive access into the career and life of the public servant who has advised seven U.S. presidents beginning with the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s and through SARS, Ebola and COVID-19.
- Released: 2021-09-10
- Runtime: 104 minutes
- Genre: Documentaries
- Stars: Anthony Fauci, Christine Grady
- Director: Janet Tobias, John Hoffman
Comments
- amitdjoshi - 15 December 2022
Excellent Biography
Dr. Fauci played an important role in fight against two pandemics - HIV and COVID-19. His contributions to translating scientific findings for public health purposes is second to none. This biography documents his contributions excellently! As a society we are truly blessed to have leaders like Fauci who facilitated the search for treatment as well as prevention of HIV infection, and during the COVID pandemic in developing a government vaccine strategy that helped us go from virus discovery to mass-scale vaccinations in less than 1 year - something mankind never accomplished before.
A lot of the other reviews expect a documentary to be balanced - I don't see the need for that. Most documentaries highlight the views of the filmmaker. Even if the filmmakers/ producers try to be unbiased, it is truly a difficult task to find major flaws in the life of someone who has tirelessly worked for public good for several decades. - john-47453 - 16 December 2021
Worst Medical movie ever!!!
I am currently a medical school student. I thought this movie was going to show us the incredible mind behind Dr. Fauci's success. I mean he has been picked by a few administrations to tackle the newest and most complex diseases, surely this movie would tell us why he was picked for such a role. Instead we got nothing but propaganda. It wasn't targeted to demonstrate his genius, but instead it appeals to the emotional side of people. To make him look like the doctor of the people instead of a very skilled physician. Most of the stuff he had done is highly erroneous but I wont get into that. Overall, it was a movie to make him look good. The fact he even had George Bush, a neoconservative, to compliment him, should suffice to say he wanted his ego stroked by both sides of the aisle. - rebeccaking-06803 - 13 October 2021
Good cinematography
Yes, I actually watched it. Like most National Geographic documentaries, the cinematography was stellar. Unfortunately, that was the only good thing about it.
The rest was an insufferable puff piece. I couldn't get into the hype of either the documentary or Dr. Fauci. - cinemainiac - 10 September 2021
What we need...NOW!
This is an important film, because the main subject is in some ways, NOT Dr. Anthony Fauci, but the concept of, and the acceptance of, science.
This doc includes a large part of the HIV/AIDS controversy, and Dr. Fauci's part in bringing it into the daynight for inspection. Coincidentally enough, this quote is from that era:
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'." -Isaac Asimov, January 21, 1980.
Go see this film, and make your own judgements. It is well-made, and important!
