Product Details

• Actors: David McCullough, David Ogden Stiers, Joe Morton, Michael Murphy, Linda Hunt
• Writers: Rocky Collins, Henry Hampton
• Producers: Katy Mostoller, Michael Rossi, Rocky Collins, Tracy Heather Strain
• Format: NTSC
• Rated: Unrated
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Pbs (Direct)
• VHS Release Date: April 14, 1998
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00000FELM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #193,124 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Started my interest in pandemic influenza, July 5, 2006

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A. Stagg (Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: American Experience - Influenza 1918 (DVD)

When this film was originally broadcast on PBS in 1998, I had not heard of the 1918 Spanish Influenza. I was shocked that I had never heard of the 1918 pandemic, given the impact it had on the 20th century. I've now read every book I coould find that chronicles the outbreak. Some of the historical facts in the film may be disputed in other histories, but it's a solid documentary and I highly recommend it. It is a rivoting film.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Favorite PBS Documentary, February 13, 2008

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This review is from: American Experience - Influenza 1918 (DVD)

This was my favorite American Experience documentary. I saw it years ago and never forgot it, so I bought it recently from Amazon to see if it still had the same effect on me. It did. A haunting and poignantportrait of our innocence in that era. The filmmakers paid great attention to detail and successfully captured the mood.This is such an engrossing film I had to give it five stars.

25 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, October 4, 2001

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This review is from: Influenza 1918: The American Experience [VHS] (VHS Tape)

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.