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Epidemic Film Festival
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brief essay
selected films & TV
a few classics

other movies & TV
A thru F + G thru M

movie & TV DVD collections

other media

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other movies & TV
N thru S + T thru Z

books about epidemics on film

image gallery • links

“In times of stress and danger such as come about as the result of an epidemic, many tragic and cruel phases of human nature
are brought out, as well as many brave and unselfish ones.” — William Crawford Gorgas, in "Sanitation In Panama"

“If you want to deal with an epidemic - crime or health - the smartest and most effective and cheapest way
to deal with it is prevention first.” — Kamala Harris, U.S. Senator from California

“In spite of the advances of medicine, deathly epidemics are more menacing than ever before.” — Christian de Duve

“Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.” — Jon Stewart, TV talk show host

“The Pandemic Is A Portal” commentary video [1:41] by Arundhati Roy, April 2020

Famous historical epidemics include:

several plagues in the 'Moses in Egypt' legend;

the Plague of Athens [429-426 BCE] was the first recorded by a witness, the statesman Thucydides;

the Plague of Justinian in 6th Century AD;

the Black Death/Plague (circa 1350 AD);

the Great Plague of London (circa 1665);

the Columbian Exchange, 1492-1550;

the American Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793;

the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918;

and the several influenza epidemics of the XXth and XXIst Century.

Long-standing diseases with occasional outbreaks include: cholera, dengue fever, diphtheria, malaria, measles, meningitis, polio, small pox, syphilis, tuberculosis, typhus, yellow fever, and the more-recent HIV/AIDS (ongoing since 1982).

Fiction about epidemics go back at least to 1826; silent films about epidemics go back at least to 1918. Production of movies about the current Wuhan coronavirus pandemic are delayed because so many countries are still in lock-down mode. {NOTE: The proprietor of this online bookstore avoids the silliness of the vampire and zombie genres, but here has reluctantly included several movies that feature some viral cause of their existence.}

Wikipedia's 'list of epidemics' page

Spirit of America Timeline - 2020 Wuhan Coronavirus Epidemic Page
Spirit of America Timeline - 2020 Coronavirus Epidemic in New Mexico

Selected Epidemic / Pandemic Films & Television

search IMDb on keywords 'epidemic' (returns over 600 titles)
search IMDb on keywords 'pandemic' (returns 15,800+ titles)
search IMDb on keywords 'space travel' (returns over 400 titles)

search DVDs on keywords 'science fiction' {returns over 7,700 items} at Amazon
search Blu-ray on keywords 'science fiction' {returns over 1,000 items} at Amazon

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Selected Silent-Era Films

"The Boomerang" (1919) /tt0009953/
based on the 1915 novel by William Hamilton Osborne [1873-1942]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boomerang_(film)
http://www.amazon.com/Boomerang-WILLIAM-HAMILTON-OSBORNE/dp/B002FT7G4C/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hamilton_Osborne
http://www.amazon.com/BOOMERANG-SCREEN-SNAPSHOTS-1922-1924/dp/B01LTHOQV6

"Die Pest In Florenz" silent film [Deutsche Eclair Germany Nov 1919]
aka "La Peste à Florence (The Plague In Florence)"
The Plague In Florence 1919 silent film An evil seductress suddenly appears in Florence, causing both the city's ruler and his son to fall madly in love with her; the son kills his father before an order to torture the woman can be carried out, then turns the city's churches into dens of sexual debauchery; acts of evil and corruption continue unabated until the arrival of Death, who brings with her a horrible plague which she is about to loose upon the city. • Produced by Eric Pommer; directed by Otto Rippert; screenplay by Fritz Lang, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's short story 'The Mask of Red Death' (not by Flaubert's 1836 report); starring Theodor Becker, Karl Bernhard, Julietta Brandt, Erner Huebsch, Franz Knaak, Otto Mannstaedt, Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg, Marga von Kierska, Hans Walter, Anders Wikman
full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia
IMDb lists as 92 minutes; restored 1999/2000; YouTube version is 200 minutes
watch full movie with German intertitles [5/2020 upload; 1:42:37] online at YouTube

"The Lady of Red Butte" silent Western feature [Thomas H. Ince/Paramount May 1919]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_of_Red_Butte

"The Landloper" silent feature [Metro Pictures Corp. April 1918] /tt0009278/
IMDb keywords include hobo, palm beach florida, epidemic
based on the 1915 novel "The Landloper: The Romance of A Man On Foot" by Holman Francis Day [1865-1935]
http://www.amazon.com/Landloper-HOLMAN-DAY/dp/1343385695/

"The Last Man On Earth" silent feature (1924) /tt0015051/

"Love's Law" [Mutual Film Sept 1918] epidemic at a steel mill /tt0186322/
{this film is considered lost} VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available

"The Shuttle" silent feature [Select Pictures Corp. Feb 1918] local typhoid fever epidemic /tt0009612/
based on the 1907 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett [1849-1924]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shuttle_(novel)
http://www.archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.264660/page/n1/mode/2up

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A thru F

"A Closer Walk" (2003) documentary - AIDS in Africa /tt0375663/

"A Man To Remember" (1938) polio /tt0030410/

"Adrenalin: Fear the Rush" (1996) /tt0115471/
virulent microflage, a deadly germ

"After Armageddon" docudrama TV movie [2010] /tt1607542/

"AIDS: The Judgment of God" documentary? (2014 video) /tt4313990/

"Alice's Birthday" family sci-fi animation (Russia 2009) alien planet, space plague, time-travel /tt1380078/

"All The Temptations of The Earth" [Iran 1989] /tt1091856/

"Anazapta" [] /tt0284851/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ + US release as "Black Plague" + in Germany as "Der Schwartze Tod (The Black Death)"
http://www.amazon.com/Jason-Flemyng/dp/B0002XOYXO/

"And The Band Played On" (1993 TV Movie) the AIDS epidemic /tt0106273/

"The Andromeda Strain" (1971) /tt0066769/
"The Andromeda Strain" miniseries (2008)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0017IVHHO

"The Anti-Vax Conspiracy (The Merchants of Doubt)" TV movie [Channel 4 TV June 2021]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt16528666/

"Atmosphere" (2010) short / epidemic in a coast town /tt5953492/

"Balto" (1995) animation - famous deadly epidemic in Nome, Alaska /tt0112453/

"The Battle of Amfar" documentary TV short (2013) /tt2674152/
scientist Dr. Mathilde Krim and movie star Elizabeth Taylor joined forces to create amfAR

"Before The Fire" [Dark Sky Films Aug 2020] directed by Charlie Buhler, written by & starring Jenna Lyng Adams /tt4255196/
original title "The Great Silence"; when a global pandemic forces a TV actress to escape to her rural hometown,
an intruder from her past proves as dangerous as the encroaching virus

"Beyond Redemption" (2011) /tt2025508/

"Black Death" (1992 TV Movie) starring Eddie Redmayne /tt0105206/
the real-life Plague of Justinian that killed half of the world population in 6th century AD reappears in modern day New York City
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Death-Digital-Copy-Blu-ray/dp/B004P2VQZW/
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Death-Digital-Copy-Sean/dp/B004P2VQZC/
"A&E Ancient Mysteries: The Black Death - All About The Plague" [1997] /tt2009752/ starring Leonard Nimoy
http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Mysteries-Black-Leonard-Nimoy/dp/B000AABKUO/
"The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague" [2016]

"Black Jack" animation [] Fumihiro Yoshimura (Director),
dark secret of a super-drug which causes a lethal virus
baroque melodrama based on a manga by Osamu Tezuka that ran in various magazines from 1973 to 1983
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Jack-Hiroshi-Fujioka/dp/B00005AX6M/

"Blindness" (2008) /tt0861689/

"BPM (Beats Per Minute)" (2017) AIDS epidemic in Paris France /tt6135348/

"Carriers" (1998 TV Movie) /tt0125034/
"Carriers" [2009]

"The Cassandra Crossing" (1976) /tt0074292/

"Chaos (2008) /tt1288398/
post-apocalyptic life after a deadly epidemic in futuristic Hong Kong

"The Cleaner" (2012) epidemic crisis in modern Lima, Peru /tt2387455/

"The Coming Pandemic" TV documentary [Nine Network Australia 2005]
The Coming Pandemic Australia TV featuring reporter Ross Coulthart • bare credits at IMDb
Amazon Instant Video [2/2020] SD rental 99¢, SD purchase $2.99
watch official trailer [1/2020 upload; 1:24] online at YouTube

"Contagion" sci-fi drama (2002) /tt0272557/
"Contagion" (2011) /tt1598778/ pContagion2011.jpg

"Contagious" (1997 TV Movie) cholera /tt0118885/

"Containment" [2015] /tt3561236/
"Containment" (2016) /tt4421578/

"Cooties" (2014) mysterious virus Stars: Elijah Wood /tt2490326/

"Coral Reefs (Le Récif de Corail)" [France March 1939] influenza epidemic /tt0030706/

"Cordon" (2014) virus outbreak in Antwerp /tt3560430/

"Corona: Auf Der Suche Nach Der Wahrheit (Corona: In Search of The Truth)" [ServusTV Austria 2021]
Corona / Wahrheit TV movie "Teil 1 (Part 1)" 1hour 30minute TV movie [May 2021]
Directed by Wolfgang Sendlhofer; narration by Franz Robert Wagner; featuring Prof. Dr. Martin Haditsch, Nobel-laureate Prof. Dr. Michael Levitt, Prof. Dr. Roland Wiesendanger (Universität Hamburg), Sabrina Rossi, Antonio Ricciardi, Dr. Roberto Cosentini, pulmonary physician Prof. Dr. Marco Confalonieri, Dr. Luca Speciani, Prof. Dr. Klaus Püschel (University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf), pathologist Prof. Dr. Gregor Gorkiewicz, pathologist Prof. Dr. Kurt Zatloukal, Dr. Thomas Ly (Bangkok Hospital), Prof. Dr. Klaus Stöhr, pathologist Mag. Dr. Karl Kashofer, Dr. Pierre Kory (president FLCCC)
credits at IMDb • DVD/Blu-ray not available
"Teil 2 (Part 2)" 1hour 38minute TV movie [July 2021]
Directed by Wolfgang Sendlhofer; narration by Franz Robert Wagner; featuring Prof. Dr. Martin Haditsch, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Prof. Dr. Martin Schwab (Universität Bielefeld), Prof. Dr. Ulrike Kämmerer, Prof. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Prof. Dr. Peter McCullough, United Nations accredited journalist Gabriela Sotomayor, Prof. Dr. Winfried Stöcker, Dr. Luigi Warren, Dr. Michael Yeadon (former VP at Pfizer), Prof. Dr. Peter Kremsner (Universitätsklinik Tübingen), Prof. Dr. Stefan Hockertz, with archive footage of CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen
credits at IMDb • DVD/Blu-ray not available

"Coronavirus, Explained" 3-part TV documentary [Netflix streaming April-June 2020]
"This Pandemic" 26-minute TV documentary [April 2020] narrated by J.K. Simmons /tt12214632/
"The Race For A Vaccine" 23-minute TV documentary [June 2020] narrated by Laura Linney /tt12228072/
"How To Cope" 20-minute TV documentary [June 2020] narrated by Idris Elba /tt12228074/

"Coronavirus, Explained" TV documentary [Japan March 2020] featuring Bill Gates /tt11946520/

"Cough" short (2013) /tt2754880/
food shortages during a pandemic and a simple purchase of rations places George in mortal jeopardy

"Coup!" comedy feature [Greenwich Ent. Aug 2024] 8/2024

Coup! comedy feature A zippy romp set during the 1918 Spanish flu outbreak that is all about how pandemics can cause an inversion of power and privilege, as blue-collar workers abruptly get labeled 'essential' while the rich sit uselessly at home • Exec produced by stars Billy Magnussen & Peter Sarsgaard, co-produced by 20 others; written & directed by Joseph Schuman & Austin Stark; Sugey Cruz 'Covid coordinator'; starring Peter Sarsgaard, Billy Magnussen, Sarah Gadon, Skye P. Marshall, Faran Tahir, Kristine Nielsen, Fisher Stevens {as Upton Sinclair}, Callum Vinson, Julia Ford Collier, Willa Dunn, Robert John Gallagher, Roy William Gardner, Mike Liscio, John Posey, Ali Wills
full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available •
watch 7/2024 official trailer [2:24] online at YouTube

"Covert One: The Hades Factor" (2006) /tt0493327/
Hades virus outbreak, an extreme rare Ebola variant - Stars: Stephen Dorff, Mira Sorvino

"The Crazies" (1973) manmade combat virus; director: George A. Romero /tt0069895/
"The Crazies" (2010) /tt0455407/

"Daylight's End" (2016) vampire-zombies /tt3007132/

"Decoding COVID-19" [WGBH-TV/P.B.S. May 2020]
Decoding COVID-19 episode of 'Nova' Season 47 Episode 7 of "Nova" [since 1974]; doctors strategize to stop the spread of COVID-19; researchers work toward finding treatments and vaccines; how the disease emerged, what it does to the human body, and how it became a pandemic • 53-minute TV documentary co-produced, written & directed by Sarah Holt; featuring Craig Sechler, Jay O. Sanders, Nahid Bhadelia • full credits at IMDb
DVD/Blu-ray not available •
Amazon Instant Video [2020] HD rental $2.99, HD purchase $4.99
watch trailer [0:26], read transcript online at PBS movie page

"The Directive" (2019) /tt5834278/
catastrophic pandemic wipes out most of humanity, leaving a lone survivor and a broken robot

"Doomsday" [2008] scotland quarantined

"Dr. Kotnis Ki Amar Kahani" [India 1946] /tt0038491/
doctor fights virulent plague during Sino-Japanese war

"Dr. O'Dowd" (1940) diphtheria epidemic /tt0031248/

"The Dream Factory (1990) /tt0271253/
an unexpected epidemic causes most people to not have dreams

"The Dustwalker" (2019) /tt6816388/

"Ebola: The Plague Fighters" [Nova Feb 1996] /tt0117346/
http://www.amazon.com/NOVA-Ebola-Plague-Fighters/dp/B000MZGN40/
http://www.amazon.com/Nova-Ebola-Plague-Fighters-VHS/dp/6304096720/

"Ebola Syndrome" (1996) /tt0116163/
restaurant employee wanted for murder contracts Ebola by raping a woman in South Africa

"80,000 Suspects" (1963) smallpox epidemic /tt0056802/

Lars von Trier's "Epidemic" [Denmark 1987]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemic_(film)
http://www.amazon.com/Epidemic-Allan-Waal/dp/B0002KPHTW/
Nigel Hartwell's "The Epidemic" [2020] starring Eric Roberts

"Ever After" (2018) /tt7224520/
It has been two years since a zombie virus epidemic infected all but two German cities

"Explained: The Next Pandemic" TV episode [Vox Media VOD Nov 2019] narrated by J.K. Simmons /tt11244670/

"Extinction: The G.M.O. Chronicles" (2011) /tt1416336/

"Factor 8" (2009 TV Movie) /tt1382719/
a flight from Thailand to Germany is infected by a mysterious virus

"Fanny Crosby" (1984) blind lyricist volunteers as a nurse during New York's cholera epidemic /tt1219825/

"Fatal Contact: Bird Flu In America" (2006 TV Movie) /tt0800026/

"5B" (2018) /tt9403508/
documentary on San Francisco General Hospital's AIDS ward

"Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe" 12-chapter serial
[Universal March 1940]

Dr. Zarkov discovers that the source of the mysterious Purple Death plague on Earth comes from a spaceship sent by evil Emperor Ming the Merciless of planet Mongo; so Flash Gordon and Dale Arden and Dr. Zarkov travel to Mongo and with help from Prince Barin of Arboria and Queen Fria of Frigia locate polarite, the antidote to the plague. Chapter Titles: 1. The Purple Death; 2. Freezing Torture; 3. Walking Bombs; 4. The Destroying Ray; 5. The Palace of Peril; 6. Flaming Death; 7. Land of The Dead; 8. The Fiery Abyss; 9. The Pool of Peril; 10. The Death Mist; 11. Stark Treachery; and 12. Doom of The Dictator • Directed by Ford Beebe & Ray Taylor; starring Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon, Shirley Deane, Roland Drew & Luli Deste
Shout! Factory/Timeless Media b&w DVD [4/2008] 12 episodes on 2 disks for $6.49
Timeless Media b&w DVD [8/2005] 12 episodes 3 disks - out of prodn/used
R.O.A.N. b&w DVD [5/2004] for $6.95
Timeless Media b&w DVD [5/2008] 12 episodes on 2 disks for $10.99
Desert Island Films b&w DVD-R [8/2011] for $12.65
St. Clair Vision b&w DVD [5/2007] out of prodn/many used
Simitar Ent. b&w VHS [11/95] 3 tapes for $18.99
Video Treasures b&w VHS [2/94] 2 tapes - out of prodn/many used
serial credits at IMDb • serial entry at Wikipedia
serial chapters are uploaded on YouTube: watch all 12 chapters [uploaded 1/2013]
also released as a serial in 1950 under the title "Space Soldiers Conquer The Universe", then edited down
to 80 minutes for television in 1951, same title • there is no separate IMDb entry
"SSCTU" feature: 80-minute Sling Shot Video b&w DVD [10/2002] for $9.74

"Flash Gordon: The Purple Death From Outer Space" []
feature-length edited version of Chapters 1-6 of the 1940 serial "Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe"
http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Gordon-Purple-Death-Outer/dp/B0000633SG/

more details (synopses, sequels, radio, stageplay, books & ebooks, links, merchandise) on
Magic Lantern's "Flash Gordon" Comics & Movies & TV Page

"Flora" [DVD release 8/2018]

"Flu" (2013) airborne virus in South Korea /tt2351310/

"The Flu That Killed 50 Million" documentary TV movie (2018 )

"The Forest Woman (Padureanca)" [Romania 1987] 19th century cholera epidemic /tt0137149/

"Four Frightened People" [] starring Claudette Colbert & Herbert Marshall
deadly bubonic plague breaks out on a coastal steamer ship
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Frightened-People-Claudette-Colbert/dp/B005STRMXG/

"Frontline: The Science & Skepticism Behind The Vaccine War" [PBS/Frontline April 2010]
Frontline: The Vaccine War on DVD Hour-long episode 8 or 14 of season 28 of the "Frontline" TV series; looks at both sides of the controversy about vaccinating children and adults against contagious disease • Co-produced, written & directed by Jon Palfreman; featuring Lorie Anderson, Donna Bradshaw-Walters, Arthur Caplan, Cynthia Cristofani, Emilio Emini (Pfizer, Inc.), Dr. Anthony Fauci, Barbara Fisher, Eric Fombonne, Alvaro Fontan, J.B. Handley, Anders Hviid, Hank Jenkins-Smith, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Jennifer Margulis, Jenny McCarthy, Paul Offit, Wendy Ranck-Buhr, Jim Shames, Kristine Sheedy (C.D.C.), Melinda Wharton (C.D.C.), Wilma Wooten; voices of Robin Parmelee, Charles Linshaw, Will Lyman; with archive footage of Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Jim Carrey, Larry King, Andrew Wakefield • full credits at IMDb
PBS Direct widescreen color DVD [6/2015] out of prodn/used
PBS Direct color DVD [6/2010] out of prodn/used
watch official trailer [2/2015 upload; 0:31] online at YouTube
watch full episode [2/2015 upload; 54:01] online at YouTube

"Frontline: Coronavirus Pandemic" [PBS/Frontline April 2020]
ep 743 = s38, ep17 Miles O'Brien and Kate McMahon investigate how the United States responded to the COVID-19 pandemic,
with a look into the first known case that was identified in the country

"Frontline: Inside Italy's COVID War" [PBS/Frontline May 2020]
ep 744 s38, ep18 Italian producer Sasha Achilli documents the struggle of doctors at the Maggiore di Cremona Hospital to combat the COVID-19 outbreak in Northern Italy

"Frontline: COVID's Hidden Toll" [PBS/Frontline July 2020]
ep 748 = s38, ep22 An investigation into the plight of undocumented fieldworkers in California during the COVID-19 pandemic

"Frontline: Undocumented In The Pandemic" 21-minute segment [PBS/Frontline Aug 2020]
"Frontline: Love, Life & The Virus" 34-minutes [PBS/Frontline Aug 2020]
ep 750 s38, ep24 two segments that contrast one woman's struggle to keep her children safe and housed, while I.C.E. detains her husband in a virus-ravaged facility,
versus another emigrant mother who gave birth after her COVID diagnosis, and the Connecticut schoolteacher who assisted her newborn and her family

"Frontline: America's Medical Supply Crisis" [PBS/Frontline Oct 2020]
ep 754 s39, ep4 How dealing with COVID-19 exposed cracks in America's medical supply chain and left healthcare workers scrambling for critical equipment

"Frontline: China's COVID Secrets" [PBS/Frontline Feb 2021]
ep 762 s39, ep12 84 minutes How China missed opportunities to suppress COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic.

"Frontline: The Virus That Shook The World" [PBS/Frontline April 2021]
ep 766 s39, ep16 168 minutes The epic story of how people around the world lived through the first year of the pandemic, from lockdowns to funerals to protests.

G thru M

"Going Viral (TV Movie documentary) 2019 with Dr. Anthony S. Fauci /tt9793908/

"The Great Fever" [PBS aired Oct 2006] /tt0883011/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/fever/ Season 19 | Episode 5

"The Great Sacrifice" (Germany 1944) typhus /tt0037154/

"The Hamburg Syndrome" (1979) /tt0079264/
mysterious, deadly plague. In germany

"The Happening" (2008) /tt0949731/

"Hazmat" []

"Hero With A Thousand Faces" (2016) documentary /tt5118964/

"Hidden" (2015) /tt2131532/

"The Hot Zone" (2019) TV-14 | 277 min The frightening spread of the EVD (ebolavirus) /tt4131818/

"House of Numbers: Anatomy of An Epidemic" documentary [2009] /tt1311710/
documentary look at world impressions and definitions of HIV/AIDS
http://www.HouseofNumbers.com
http://www.imdb.com/video/vi1292764953/

"How Safe Are We?" (2005) /tt1261321/ episode of "Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge" TV mini-series

"How To Survive A Pandemic" [H.B.O. Documentary Films March 2022]
How To Survive A Pandemic TV documentary from H.B.O. 1hour 46minute TV documentary about the race to roll out COVID-19 vaccines in the war against the corona-virus pandemic • Co-written & directed by David France; co-written by Tyler H. Walk; featuring Rev. Paul Abernathy, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (United Nations/W.H.O.), Dr. Dan Barouch, Dr. Seth Berkley, Albert Bourla (Pfizer), reporter Jon Cohen, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, Anthony Fauci, MD, Dr. Glenda Gray (South African Medical Research Council), Dr. Adrian Hill, Dr. Peter Marks, Adar Poonawalla • full credits at IMDb
DVD/Blu-ray not available •
Amazon Instant Video [3/2022] - offered free with signup for Max

"How To Survive A Plague" AIDS documentary [2012] with Dr. Anthony Fauci /tt2124803/

"I Am Legend" (2007) /tt0480249/

"Icon" (2005 TV Movie) /tt0424176/
there's an outbreak of a mysterious disease in Russia - Stars: Patrick Swayze

"The Impossible War" [announced 2020] /tt6523842/
Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin rush to develop anti-polio vaccines during a deadly epidemic in the United States

"Infini" (2015) off-world mining-facility after a biological outbreak /tt3327624/

"Invasion" TV movie (1997) /tt0118452/

"The Invasion" (2007) alien epidemic /tt0427392/

"Invisible Threat" documentary short (2014) /tt3856650/
award-winning teen filmmakers explore immune system, disease, vaccines, and safety after deadly outbreak affects them

"Isle of The Dead" [1945] /tt0037820/
Boris Karloff shares a quarantined house with other strangers on a plague-infested, perhaps spirit-haunted island
http://www.amazon.com/Isle-Dead-VHS-Boris-Karloff/dp/6302069106/
"Isle of The Dead" [2016] /tt5108168/
http://www.amazon.com/Isle-Dead-Joey-Lawrence/dp/B01MZCQ0CV/

"Istanbul" - original title "Salgin (Epidemic)" [Ipar Intl. 1952] /tt0143308/
a nurse in Türkiye fights to save the people during a plague

"It's A Disaster" art-house black comedy film [2013] /tt1995341/

"It's Great To Be Alive" musical fantasy [Fox 1933] /tt0024189/
"El Último Varon Sobre la Tierra" [Fox Spain Jan 1933] /tt0023983/
an example of Simultaneous Bilingual Film Production in the early sound era: Raul Roulien stars in both films, but the English and Spanish versions have
different directors, different writers, and different cast members; an airplane pilot crash lands on a remote island just before a virus called 'masculitis' kills
every male human on the planet over the age of 14; when the pilot is rescued, all the women in the world are soon after him . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Great_to_Be_Alive_(film)

"Jericho Fever" (1993 TV Movie) /tt0107263/
a gang of infected Mexican terrorists cross the U.S. border into New Mexico

"Jungle Man" [1941] /tt0033777/
Buster Crabbe (Actor), Charles Middleton (Actor), Harry L. Fraser (Director) + dJungleManBCrabbe.jpg
http://www.amazon.com/Jungle-Man-Buster-Crabbe/dp/B00011D1KE/

"Keoma" (1976) plague-ridden village tt0074740/

"Khaleja" (2010) mysterious illness ravages a remote village /tt1582519/

"Killer Flu" episode [] of the "Secrets of The Dead" TV series
directed by Bill Lyons + dSecretsKillerFluPBS.jpg
http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Dead-Killer-Bill-Lyons/dp/B000EOTE9A/

"Killer On Board" TV movie [1977] deadly virus on a cruise ship /tt0076264/

"The Killer That Stalked New York" smallpox (1950) /tt0042643/

"Kissing Game" aka "Boca A Boca" (in production 2020) /tt11131962/

"The Lady Shogun and Her Men" (2010) /tt1571235/
mysterious epidemic in 1716 Japan

"Láska v Case Korony (Love In The Case of The Corona)" 6-episode comedy TV mini-series [Czech TV May-June 2020] /tt12258140/
http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/13432140276-laska-v-case-korony/

"The Last Days" (2013) mysterious epidemic /tt1935914/

"The Last Man" (2008) /tt0950753/
adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1826 novel about a twenty-first century pandemic
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Man-Mary-Shelley/dp/1515419975/

"The Last Man On Earth" silent feature (1924) /tt0015051/
"The Last Man On Earth" (1964) Stars: Vincent Price /tt0058700/
based on the novel by Richard Matheson
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Man-Earth-Vincent-Price/dp/B0002HODU4/
"The Last Man On Earth" [in production 2020] /tt12121162/
short film co-produced, written & directed by and starring Logan Fry + pLastManOnEarthLFry.jpg
http://www.facebook.com/lonebuzzardfilmworks/

"The Last Ship" sci-fi TV series (2014–2018) /tt2402207/

"Lentsu" 3-hour comedy film [Finland 1990] /tt0222581/
virulent influenza virus wreaks havoc on everyday Finnish people; based on a novel by well-known Finnish humorist Veikko Huovinen

"Les Jaunes (The Yellows)" [2014] Comedy, Horror /tt3243904/
an epidemic of yellow crawling brains threatens a remote Northern Quebec town

"Li Shan" 25-min short (2018) medical epidemic in 2003 China /tt8323994/

"Little Fish" [IFC Films/Sony Pictures Worldwide Feb 2021] 2/2021
/tt9735470/ memory loss epidemic • directed by Chad Hartigan; written by Mattson Tomlin
from a short story by Aja Gabel; starring Olivia Cooke, Jack O'Connell, Soko, Raúl Castillo
watch 11/2020 official trailer [2:45] online at YouTube

"Longtime Companion" (1989) AIDS epidemic /tt0100049/

"Maggie" (2015) cannibalistic zombies Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger /tt1881002/

"Many Worlds" sci-fi short (2018) by Nathan J. Kress /tt7826004/

"Many Worlds" sci-fi feature [pre-production 2019] /tt8703820/
physics professor starts receiving visions of future events, telling him that he must stop a catastrophic global virus pandemic

"Marejada (Tideswell?)" [Mexico Nov 1952] /tt0268441/
IMDb keywords include young doctor, seacoast, small village, epidemic

"The Masque of The Red Death" (1964) /tt0058333/
a European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the 'Red Death' plague that stalks the land
Directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price, based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe
"Maska Crvene Smrti (The Mask of The Red Death)" color animated short [Zagreb Film 1969] /tt0943453/
"Masque of The Red Death" (1990)

"Message From The Future" [Mosfilm Soviet Union Feb 1989] single keyword 'epidemic' /tt0096085/

"The Middle of Nowhere" aka "Rase Campagne" (2017) /tt6708712/

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