This painstakingly thorough 90-minute documentary started following scientists across continents when they first began working on finding a coronavirus vaccine.
In time to come there will inevitably be movies and other dramas about these Covid times, but this was the real deal and all the more engrossing for it.
If you weren’t moved by the human endeavour on display here, the brilliance, yet, unfailingly, the modesty, you must have a brick for a heart. Or be an anti-vaxxer.
There was talk of sequencing, spikes and viral vectors. But all of it was humanised when the film introduced us to the individual scientists.
This is the extraordinary inside story of the unprecedented quest to develop vaccines to fight Covid-19...
This masterful, mind-boggling film gets up close with the scientists who huddled over computers in their PJs to save millions of lives. The wonder of it!

This Summer, American Public Television and WORLD Channel Transport Audiences to an African National Park that is Saving Endangered Animals while Lifting Communities out of Poverty
Chevy Chase, MD (July 26, 2021) - “Our Gorongosa,” the inspirational film by HHMI Tangled Bank Studios and Gorongosa Media is debuting on public television stations across the country this summer and nationally on WORLD Channel, produced by GBH in partnership with the WNET Group in New York and distributed by American Public Television. Close to 90% of U.S. households will now be able to see the film on their local public television station (check local listings for exact dates and airtimes).
Race for the Vaccine features a number of poignant human moments.
The documentary, "Race for the Vaccine,” debuts Saturday at 9 p.m. Eastern on CNN. The network had access to teams of scientists around the world who were trying to develop the vaccine, including George Gao of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

RACE FOR THE VACCINE TO PREMIERE SATURDAY, MAY 15
RACE FOR THE VACCINE will premiere for television Saturday, May 15 at 9:00pm Eastern (6:00pm Pacific) on CNN. The film, narrated and produced by CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, is directed by filmmaker and former virologist Catherine Gale and co-directed by medical journalist and filmmaker Caleb Hellerman. Race for the Vaccine traces the world-changing discoveries of the life-saving vaccines against Covid-19.