We're not out of the woods yet, but these documentaries show how we got here.
Fresh off the news that the delightful West Wing reunion special is now available to watch for free through the end of the year, the Trump COVID-19 documentary Totally Under Control is now also being made available to watch online for free. Directed by prolific documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Going Clear, Enron, Citizen K), the new film Totally Under Control examines how the United States got to over 200,000 American deaths from COVID-19, and chronicles the response from the Trump administration to the pandemic. “This…will give you an intensely factual account of how the federal government …
Why did the United States fail so miserably when it came to combating the coronavirus? The easy answer is that our President is a selfish moron, and the fish rots from the head. But that doesn’t really encompass the complete and utter breakdown that has led to over 200,000 dead Americans. Directors Alex Gibney, Ophelia Harutyunyan, and Suzanne Hillinger explore exactly what went wrong with their new documentary Totally Under Control, and while you may be familiar with the larger beats—broken tests, absence of leadership, etc.—the documentary is an infuriating education on how a powerful nation …