The Polio Crusade

Year: 2009

Runtime: 55 mins

Language: English

Director: Sarah Colt

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Interweaving testimonies of polio survivors with the advocacy of a crusader, the film chronicles America’s fight against the disease. Based on David Oshinsky’s Pulitzer‑winning Polio: An American Story, it features interviews with historians, scientists, survivors and Julius Youngner, the last surviving member of the team that created the Salk vaccine.

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