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The Origins of AIDS

Name: The Origins of AIDS
Director: Peter Chappell
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2004-05-02T00:00:00.000000Z
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Tom Curtis, Cecil Fox, Simon Wain-Hobson, John Martin, Edward Hooper

(Les Origines du SIDA)

“Did scientists inadvertently caused the AIDS epidemic?”

20041h 32m

Documentary

Overview

While AIDS may be one of the most feared diseases of modern times, there is still a degree of scientific debate over the subject of just how the disease originated, and how the first cases spread. Two filmmakers explore a controversial theory about the beginnings of the disease. Using interviews, newsreel footage, and documented research experiments, The Origin of AIDS examines how a combination of benevolence, careless lab procedures, and the need of a desperate few to cover their tracks could have led to one of the most serious pandemics of the 20th century.