We Heard the Bells: The Influenza of 1918 (2010)
57 min
We meet individuals from marginalized communities who describe what it was like to live through the 1918 flu pandemic. Their experiences raise questions about the pandemic: why did it kill so many people? Why were so many of the dead young adults? Where did this lethal flu come from? How can we keep a pandemic like that from occurring again? The film follows the search for answers from an expedition to Alaska in 1951 to collect tissue from bodies buried in the permafrost, to the scientists and epidemiologists working on the same questions today. It explains the relevance of research into the 1918 pandemic to the threat of current and future flu pandemics.
- Release date
- January 15, 2010
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- John Keltonic
Cast
- S. Epatha Merkerson as Narrator
- Maria Prats Gomez as Self - El Paso, TX
- Annah Elnora Thurber as Self - Stilwelll, OK
- Priscilla Reyna Jojola as Self - Taos Pueblo, NM
- James Randolph Farris as Himelf - Consortium Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Tim Uyeki as Self - Medical Epidiemiologist, NCIRD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Carmen Trujillo Portillo as Self - Los Angeles, CA
- Alberta Lente as Self - Isleta Pueblo, NM
- Reba Haimovitz as Self - Philadelphia, PA
- Florence Parks as Self - Baltimore, MD
Crew
- Lisa Laden · Director
- Lisa Laden · Writer
- John Keltonic · Composer
- Michael Peizer · Cinematographer
- Dmitry Torgovitsky · Editor