{"id":1216572,"date":"2025-02-18T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216572"},"modified":"2025-02-18T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:00:00","slug":"16-of-the-best-movies-about-outbreaks-and-pandemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216572","title":{"rendered":"16 of the Best Movies About Outbreaks and Pandemics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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During his Presidential campaign, new Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised an eight-year halt<\/a> on infectious disease research, presumably because our chances of encountering any sort of infectious disease will be nearly zero once the fluoride is gone from our water supply. As we celebrate the disease-free world of the very near future, let’s take a look back at movies that explore worlds in which viruses and diseases (or related metaphors) run rampant.<\/p>\n

These movies vary wildly in their tones and styles, but there are some recurring themes: Science and scientists (however flawed) are almost always a source of hope, while the efficacy of politicians and bureaucracy in harnessing technology to provide assistance is mixed, reflecting our deep ambivalence about the power and willingness of government to help us in times of crisis. Some of these movies suggest that we’re largely on our own in times of viral crisis, but only where medicine is absent. Others, ones with less of a sense of the inevitable, turn on the development of vaccines or related cures. In the movies, at least, it seems that medical science is where hope lies.<\/p>\n

Outbreak<\/em> (1995)<\/h2>\n
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Blending virology with disaster-movie swagger, Wolfgang Petersen’s medical thriller might not be the most rigid in its adherence to science, Outbreak<\/em> finds an all-star cast fighting to stop an epidemic of Motaba, a fictional Ebola-esque disease that mutates after having been smuggled into the country via an infected capuchin monkey from the jungle of Zaire. It’s very ’90s, I suppose, that the terror would come from the heart of Africa, while efforts by to prevent the virus from killing everyone in a small California town are complicated by factions in the U.S. military who want to keep it a secret, potentially to use as a weapon. Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Donald Sutherland, and Cuba Gooding Jr. are among the film’s scientists and co-conspirators. You can rent Outbreak<\/em> from Prime Video<\/a><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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