Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney gives urgent testimony to the fatal failure of the American government in the face of Covid-19. His riveting documentary gathers shocking evidence of incompetence, corruption and unwillingness to follow the course of action recommended by experts. It is also a scathing indictment of the administration of former President Donald Trump, whom Gibney sees as the main culprit in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans and the loss of jobs for millions more.

Alex Gibney, Ophelia Harutyunyan, Suzanne Hillinger

American director and producer Alex Gibney is one of the most influential documentary filmmakers of our time. He has made award-winning and widely discussed films about the Church of Scientology, WikiLeaks, and the events leading up to the bankruptcy of the Enron energy company. He won an Academy Award for Taxi to the Dark Side (2007), a reconstruction of the case of an Afghan taxi driver tortured to death by American soldiers.