There haven't been a lot of movies about pandemics, yet, but today Alex and Jonathan take a look at the various ways they have been done in the past, specifically in Outbreak (1995), Contagion (2011), and Flu (2013). We talk about the ways pandemic movies suffer from having a defined genre, what they might look like in the future, and how our current pandemic is affecting the current state of filmmaking in the US.

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4:55 – Outbreak

23:55 – Contagion

50:28 – Flu

1:11:13 – Overall

1:36:53 – Coming Attractions

Coming Attractions:

Field of Dreams (1989)

Remember the Titans (2000)

Invictus (2009)

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