
Outbreak
2015-05-05 · 53 min · ★ 7.5
FRONTLINE spent months on the ground in West Africa, tracing the Ebola outbreak’s path through Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in 2014 and 2015 and uncovering the hidden story of what happened before the world started paying attention. The documentary shared firsthand accounts from survivors and victims’ family members — from the forest region of Guinea to the bustling Liberian capital of Monrovia — including the father of a one-year-old Guinean child who was believed to be the first person to die in the outbreak.
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- Directors
- Dan Edge
- Production companies
- FRONTLINE, Quicksilver Media
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- USD 540,000
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