“Ebola was not an exception, Ebola is a precedent…”
Outbreak
The inside story of how and why the worst Ebola outbreak in history wasn't stopped before it was too late.
Outbreak tells the vivid, inside, human story of how and why the Ebola outbreak wasn't stopped before it was too late, drawing on unprecedented research into the early spread of the virus, along with revelatory and candid admissions of failure from key government and public health officials, some of whom speak publicly for the first time.
The film interweaves the harrowing personal stories of the West Africans battling the virus with interviews with key global decision makers and health officials — including the President of Liberia, the Director of the CDC, and multiple top WHO officials — to shed new light on what went wrong.
Directed, Produced and Filmed by Dan Edge
Produced by Sasha Achilli
Edited by Tim Lovell
Music by Jonny Pilcher
Production Managed by Philippa Lacey
Executive Producer for Quicksilver: Eamonn Matthews
MANAGING EDITOR: ANDREW METZ
Deputy Executive Producer for FRONTLINE: Raney Aronson-Rath
Executive Producer for FRONTLINE: David Fanning
2015, Mongoose Pictures and Quicksilver Media for FRONTLINE PBS and BBC2
“Crafted like a cinematic thriller”
Winner BAFTA award for best current affairs documentary
Winner Grierson award for best current affairs documentary
Winner Emmy award for outstanding coverage of a current news story
Winner Columbia duPont Award
Winner One World Media Award for best television documentary
Winner Scripps Howard Award for best documentary
Nominated Emmy for Outstanding Cinematography
Nominated Emmy for Outstanding Writing
Nominated Emmy for Outstanding Research
Nominated RTS Award for current affairs
Nominated RTS Craft Award for Best Director
Nominated Foreign Press Association Award for Best Documentary
“Outbreak isn’t easy to watch. It is, on the other hand, a work whose exposé of the causal factors...is so graphically clear it becomes impossible to look away....”