The global race for a vaccine against the COVID-19 virus has hatched a feature documentary from CNN Films and the BBC.
CNN Films and BBC will take viewers inside the efforts of researchers around the world trying to develop and manufacture vaccines to fight the global coronavirus pandemic, in a documentary feature slated to air on CNN and BBC Two in the spring of 2021.

CNN Films & BBC Announce Production of Documentary Following Scientific Journey to COVID-19 Vaccines for Premiere in Spring 2021
Chevy Chase, MD (December 10, 2020)- Documentary produced by Wingspan Productions and Global Health Reporting Center, in association with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Tangled Bank Studios, tells the inside story of the biggest scientific challenge of our age – how a small, international group of vaccine scientists took on COVID-19.
HHMI Tangled Bank Studios' Head of Studio, Sean B. Carroll addresses science denialism
HHMI Tangled Bank Studios is a rarity in the film world — a nonprofit boutique film studio housed within the internationally recognized Howard Hughes Medical Institute, one of the largest private, nonprofit science philanthropies in the U.S. dedicated to advancing scientific research and science education.
Burns’s documentary, made shortly before Sacks’s death from cancer in 2015, traces the blossoming of a brilliant but troubled outsider as he elevated patient case histories to a literary art form by ceaselessly posing the same question: What is it like to be you?
James Byrne’s Our Gorongosa from Gorongosa Media & HHMI Tangled Bank Studios received an honorable mention for the Inspiring Change Award.
Ric Burns' Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (Zeitgeist) documents a world-famous neurologist who was given a death sentence — inoperable cancer — and used his remaining time to reflect on his complicated life and the wonder of the world.
A new film from NOVA and HHMI Tangled Bank Studios documents one of the most ambitious wildlife recovery projects ever: the reintroduction of African wild dogs into Gorongosa.
There is a new NOVA PBS, not-to-be-missed special that takes a look at the important role that predators, such as the African wild dog, play in the health and balance of an ecosystem.