Documentary
The epic story of how people around the world lived through the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, from lockdowns to funerals to protests. Filming across the globe and using extensive personal video and local footage, FRONTLINE documented how people and countries responded to COVID-19 across cultures, races, faiths and privilege.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Hell of a Cruise
Europa im Lockdown
Until Further Notice
Playing with Gods
Edge of the Valley
Essential Exhibition
Lockedout
The Return
July Talk - Live At A Drive-In
The Last Man
The Magic Behind 'd'ILLUSION: The Houdini Musical - The Audio Theater Experience'
The World Beyond Silence
Igor Levit: No Fear
The Big Reset
144
Invisibili
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
Apausalypse
Palo Amargo, Jeep, Grapefruits
Twenty
SIMILAR MOVIES
Hell of a Cruise
IMDB 5.4 | Sep , 2022
Peels back the curtain on the two-week, claustrophobic nightmare when passengers and crew members boarded the luxury Diamond Princess cruise ship in January of 2020, they had no idea that the deadly novel coronavirus boarded the ship with them, turning the floating paradise into their worst nightmare.Europa im Lockdown
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2021
Europe in lockdown. Is the corona virus still a threat to the health systems of different nations? Or is it the measures that choke people off? What is the mood like among our neighbors? In this documentary we set off in January 2021. Across Europe. We report from 10 different European countries.Until Further Notice
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2021
With his industry on lockdown and no end in sight, Toronto chef Luke Donato tries to keep his culinary passion alive during the COVID-19 pandemic - even if it means teaching a group of misfits online.Playing with Gods
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2022
The documentary dives intimately behind the scenes of the Finnish National Opera and sucks the viewer in like the best of thrillers. The three hours fly by, even for those who aren’t necessarily interested in opera as an art form.Edge of the Valley
IMDB 10 | Nov , 2021
A nine-year-old Syrian refugee girl contemplates her increasingly bleak future after being forced to drop out of school in the midst of Lebanon’s unprecedented economic collapse and battle with Covid-19.Essential Exhibition
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2022
An independent documentary about the unprecedented struggles of movie theaters and the film industry as a whole during the COVID-19 pandemicLockedout
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2020
A short documentary about a homeless couple who face the ban on being on the street during 2020 quarantine. Just through their eyes, the two protagonists show us a different Milan, silent and suspended.The Return
IMDB 7 | Jun , 2021
It’s spring in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Uyantza festival is underway with the community celebrating all that the forest has to offer. Meanwhile, news is breaking around the world that a novel virus is spreading and a state of emergency is declared across the country. As people test positive for COVID-19 in the community, some families decide to leave and head deeper into the jungle. Disconnected from school, friends, the internet, and work, one family learns to reconnect with life in the forest. The children begin to unlearn the national curriculum, and instead are taught Indigenous knowledge that mainstream schools normally pass over. As COVID-19 wreaks havoc around the planet, the family reconnect to their ancestral ways, but as news arrives that Ecuador’s lockdown will end soon, will the family choose to return?July Talk - Live At A Drive-In
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2024
Originally performed in the unprecedented circumstances of 2020, Live At A Drive-In shows a band at the height of their potent creative vision and technical prowess. Under the summer stars, in a field surrounded by parked cars tuned into the broadcast dial, July Talk brought people together (but not too close!) at a time when impactful live music experiences were nearly impossible.The Last Man
IMDB 0 | May , 2021
Gravedigger is the last name on the list of fighters facing the Corona epidemic. The gravediggers have buried the dead in one corona after another at the call of humanity even though they were not paid. In return, they received some rewards and an invaluable realization. One of them is Aslam of Ray Bazar Cemetery, The Last Man.The Magic Behind 'd'ILLUSION: The Houdini Musical - The Audio Theater Experience'
IMDB 10 | Dec , 2020
A special behind-the-scenes look at the making of the audiobook edition of "d'ILLUSION: The Houdini Musical" and how it did its part in helping keep theater and the arts alive during the COVID-19 pandemic.The World Beyond Silence
IMDB 6.2 | May , 2021
The pandemic has many faces. It has affected everyone across the world, but each of us in a different way. A collection of individual fates observed in fine detail. And a filmic world tour that looks down on places of residence from above and yet gets very close to the people.Igor Levit: No Fear
IMDB 6.7 | Oct , 2022
Follows the artist over two years as he explores his „life after Beethoven“, as he searches for his next challenge, his identity as an artist.The Big Reset
IMDB 6 | Sep , 2022
144
IMDB 7.3 | May , 2021
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 WNBA season pivoted into a bubble site in Bradenton, Florida – where 144 players across 12 teams convened to face the rigors of an unrelenting schedule and finish their battle for a championship; all while just as dedicated to amplify social activism in response to the injustices that gripped that same summer. A documentary from ESPN Films.Invisibili
IMDB 6.2 | Sep , 2022
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
IMDB 6.5 | Sep , 2021
Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to the power of cinema and its storytellers.Apausalypse
IMDB 9 | May , 2021
After experiencing a certain void when the premier of their film “The Third Pole” was cancelled due to the Pandemic. The film makers decided to go on a journey with their cameraman Andri Haraldsson and capture those strange times.Palo Amargo, Jeep, Grapefruits
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2020
Faced with the global crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of a family trusts in the curative and preventive properties of the Palo Amargo tea, but his believes end up reverberating within the family dynamic.Twenty
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2023
Set in a speakeasy in Atlanta, “Twenty” is a feature documentary about fifteen young people making it through 2020. The film is an observational time capsule that lays bare the raw reflections of a group of people surviving a year that will be seared into our generational memory.