Product Details

• Directors: Irene Taylor Brodsky
• Producers: Vermilion Films, Google.org
• Format: NTSC
• Studio: Vermilion Films
• DVD Release Date: August 11, 2009
• Run Time: 38 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002HMDQ3C
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #98,753 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The Final Inch is a film from Vermilion Pictures, in association with Google.org, about the historic global effort to eradicate polio. Here, the story told is as much about the messengers as the message. You'll meet Munzareen Fatima, one of the thousands of community "foot soldiers" across India working to sway reluctant families to vaccinate their children, and Dr. Ashfaq Bhat, who travels into the backwaters of India's Ganges Basin by boat and foot to detect emerging cases of polio. Mikail Davenport and the late Martha Mason bring us into their lives and describe the paralyzing challenges of childhood polio, reminding us how endemic polio once was in the United States.  The Final Inch was nominated for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 2008 Academy Awards held in March 2009.  Google.org will donate $2 toward polio eradication for every copy of The Final Inch purchased before December 31, 2009. 

The DVD is captioned with subtitles in 19 languages: English, Japanese, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Swedish, Simple Chinese, Arabic, Italian, and Korean.

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommend, August 1, 2009

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Regina Rodriguez-Martin "reginamrm" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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Few Americans have any real idea of the conditions of life in parts of India and this film gives an excellent view of the challenges of life in the slums, especially regarding health and sanitation. You see polio vaccination volunteers, Rotary members and health workers plodding through garbage, crossing rivers and facing extreme suspicion and prejudice as they try to reach every child. Once they reach a family, we see them labor to convince the parents that they are not there to hurt their baby, but to prevent it from getting polio, a disease that can cripple and kill. Yes, polio still exists in the world and ruins thousands of lives a year. It really opened my eyes and I can't recommend this film enough.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the final inch, June 27, 2010

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brkawc - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Final Inch (DVD)

excellent information on last polio cases in worldand resistance to polio vaccine

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Polio eradication - only another few years - hopefully, December 29, 2009

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Robert E. Johnson (Bolton, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Final Inch (DVD)

This presents the efforts to finally eradicate polio worldwide. It's a disease I remember from childhood and struck many of the people I know. It is still doing so in the final few countries where eradication efforts are underway. This is a sensitive and educating reminder of the importance of completing the job. The intent of this DVD is to promote and support that final effort. I highly recommend viewing it and showing it to all you can. Rotary International is one organization actively making efforts and raising funds to complete this eradication.