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Film and Documentary Movie Reviews

This film and documentary review commentary is a guide to the value and interest to both the field of law and the field of public health and biodefense. The rating system is a "snapshot" look, while the linked reviews provide greater detail for an audience whose interests are in these areas, as well as the casual viewer looking for background for these areas. We hope that you enjoy this ongoing project, and we welcome your input.

Films, Fiction:

Film Legal Interest Rating Biodefense Interest Rating
Outbreak 1995 Fiction ScalesScalesScalesScalesScales BiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefense
28 Days Later 2002 Fiction ScalesScalesScalesScalesScales BiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefense
Waterborne 2006 Fiction ScalesScalesScalesScalesScales BiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefense
The Sum of all Fears 2002 Fiction ScalesScalesScalesScalesScales BiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefense
The Constant Gardner 2005 Fiction ScalesScalesScalesScalesScales BiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefense
The Siege 1998 Fiction ScalesScalesScalesScalesScales BiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefense
Miss Ever's' Boys 1997 Historical Fiction ScalesScalesScalesScalesScales BiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefense

Documentaries:

Film Legal Interest Rating Biodefense Interest Rating
Suicide Mission: Human Guinea Pigs 1996 THC ScalesScalesScalesScalesScales BiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefense
Bioterror 2002 NOVA ScalesScalesScalesScalesScales BiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefense
Ebola, The Plague Fighters 1996 NOVA ScalesScalesScalesScalesScales BiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefense
Grounded on 9/11 2005 THC ScalesScalesScalesScalesScales BiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefense
Plague War 1999 Frontline ScalesScalesScalesScalesScales BiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefense
Unconstitutional. The War on Our Civil Liberties 2005   ScalesScalesScalesScalesScales BiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefenseBiodefense

Movies to be Reviewed Next Fall:

  • Strange Culture (2007) (documentary)
  • Dirty War (2003) (PBS fiction)
  • Dirty Bomb (NOVA, 2003)
  • Quarantine (1989) (Fiction)
  • Contaminated Man (2001) (Fiction)
  • Contagion (2003) (Fiction)
  • Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2007) (Fiction)
  • Secrets of the Dead: Killer Flu (PBS, 2003)
  • Pandemic (2007) (fiction)
  • 28 Weeks Later (2007) (fiction)
  • Typhoid Mary: The Most Dangerous Woman in America (NOVA, 2004)
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