This is a very clear and personalized presentation of the history and human impact of a seriously debilitating disease - one which we in the western world are too often tempted to think of in the past tense.
Watch the official A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio in America 1998 trailer in HD below or find more A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio in America videos on Vidimovie.
United States 04 March 1998
More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio in America:
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1998:
06 April 1998
Discovery examines the history of "Golden age of Piracy." The program takes a detailed look at the harsh lives of pirates, their tactics, motivations and why they would choose such a life.
31 March 1998
A night watchman is killed and the newspaper La Provincia tries to build a scoop, pretending there is a serial killer behind it.
18 December 1998
Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.
01 January 1998
Two quirky bush critters cut to the chase in a roadkill race around New Zealand. The game is fast, the stakes are high, the prize is a juicy dead possum.
01 January 1998
By her own admission, Katy Manning is ‘as blind as a bat’ and never knows where she’ll end up. When she suddenly arrived in the UK, Katy was probably as surprised as the rest of us!
01 July 1998
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb.
01 July 1998
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.
19 April 1998
When a large corporation threatens to take over a small town's primary business and put half of the town's population out of work, sawmill owner Logan Reeser is the only one who can stand in their way.
20 February 1998
Murat, who is not very attractive, is actually a naive person. His biggest dream is that the alternative universe, in which he imagines himself as an invincible hero.
10 June 1998
A team of high school idiots are hired by a suburban mad scientist to track down and destroy a rogue zombie.
16 August 1998
He's the Hollywood Heartthrob who starred in the most successful movie in history, the $2 billion theatrical box office blockbuster Titanic and received am Academy Award nomination when he was still in his teens.
Have you watched A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio in America yet? What did you think about it?