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The Shot Felt 'Round the World. The images and memories are still familiar to those of a certain age - children in braces or iron lungs; the terrifying fear that washed over America each summer - a fear that out of nowhere a seemingly healthy child would catch polio and be crippled or killed.
- (35)
- Documentary, Biography, Drama
- Tjardus Greidanus
- 2010
23 mar 2020 · This is the story of how Dr. Jonas Salk and his team at the University of Pittsburgh, pulled together with a city and the country to conquer the most fear disease...
- 3 min
- 28,2K
- C Kurlander
31 mar 2020 · Watch trailer. Genres: Documentary. Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes. Availability: Worldwide. A horror movie could not be more dramatic: A disease seeks out mainly children and terrorizes them and their parents each summer.
- 3 min
- 1190
- WQED Film Academy
The Shot Felt 'Round the World: How the Polio Vaccine Saved the World is presented by your local public television station. Distributed nationally by American Public Television. More Science...
In a film that challenges us to re-think our approach to contemporary problems, 'The Shot Felt 'Round the World' tells the dramatic tale of an unconventional thinker, Dr. Jonas Salk, who pulled together with a community and a country to defeat polio, the.
- 3 min
'The Shot Felt 'Round The World' is the dramatic story of how a community and a nation, boldly led by a young Dr. Jonas Salk and his research team at the University of Pittsburgh, came together in the early 1950's to defeat polio, the most feared disease.
- 3 min
The Shot Felt 'Round the World. Polio held 20th century Europe and America in a state of terror — a virus that sought out mainly children each summer season. Pools and movie theaters became arenas of fear that this crippling and fatal disease would leave many in a dreaded "iron lung."
