26 April 2021 Factual 172 mins
The epic story of how people around the world lived through the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, from lockdowns to funerals to protests. Filming across the globe and using extensive personal video and local footage, FRONTLINE documented how people and countries responded to COVID-19 across cultures, races, faiths and privilege.
Watch the official The Virus That Shook the World 2021 trailer in HD below.
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01 January 2020
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13 May 2021
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 WNBA season pivoted into a bubble site in Bradenton, Florida – where 144 players across 12 teams convened to face the rigors of an unrelenting schedule and finish their battle for a championship; all while just as dedicated to amplify social activism in response to the injustices that gripped that same summer.
29 February 2020
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18 September 2022
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20 April 2021
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20 March 2020
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06 April 2021
In 2019, 1.2 million people stepped off a cruise ship into the small, south-east Alaskan town of Ketchikan.
22 March 2021
Humor helps people through hard times. A look at the viral videos, songs and sketches that have filled the Internet worldwide since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and what this lockdown humor says about humans in distress.
11 May 2023
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30 April 2020
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12 February 2021
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01 June 2022
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04 June 2021
When a young boy, Noah, meets Zooey, a young girl living in a motel, they form an unbreakable bond. Soon after Noah discovers a secret about her that changes the course of his summer forever.
07 July 2021
Natasha Romanoff, also known as Black Widow, confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises.
10 December 2021
Baasha dies just few days before the assembly by-Election for Mylapore constituency while the election campaign by the political parties are in full swing.
29 June 2021
From 1992, a young woman (Lisa Mazeo) is kidnapped and held for ransom by a sadistic killer (Dave Castiglione).
01 September 2021
After accidentally shooting a stranger in the woods, a drug-addled veteran is forced to confront the problems in his life as he attempts to flee town.
05 May 2021
This film sheds light on the little-known history of plantations and the enslaved in North Florida. It seeks to advance a sense of place and identity for thousands of African-Americans by exploring the invisible history of slavery in Leon County.
10 February 2021
Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse get kicked out of their home and relocate to a fancy New York hotel, where a scrappy employee named Kayla will lose her job if she can’t evict Jerry before a high-class wedding at the hotel.
08 July 2021
The decision to move to Holland doesn't sound like a wise idea. Why move to a country that could be flooded at any moment? For the last 25 years, the political climate has shifted.
03 November 2021
The Eternals are a team of ancient aliens who have been living on Earth in secret for thousands of years.
28 July 2021
Dr. Lily Houghton enlists the aid of wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff to take her down the Amazon in his dilapidated boat.
01 April 2021
Jin Yi feels skeptical about her accustomed life as a high-class prostitute. The life she wants to run away from.
25 March 2021
Act of Violence Upon a Young Journalist is a film shot in 1988 and released on VHS in 1989; a mysterious cult work of Uruguayan cinema surrounded by strange theories about Manuel Lamas, its unknown creator.
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