Totally Under Control

2020
TV-14
2h 3m

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

3.4K

YOUR RATING

An in-depth look at how the United States government handled the response to the COVID-19 outbreak during the early months of the pandemic.

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An in-depth look at how the United States government handled the response to the COVID-19 outbreak during the early months of the pandemic.An in-depth look at how the United States government handled the response to the COVID-19 outbreak during the early months of the pandemic.An in-depth look at how the United States government handled the response to the COVID-19 outbreak during the early months of the pandemic.

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IMDb RATING

7.6/10

3.4K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 wins & 8 nominations total

Self - Congresswoman, Michigan
(archive footage)
(as Rep. Debbie Dingell)

Anthony Fauci

Self
(archive footage)

Thomas Frieden

Self - CDC Director 2009 - 2017
(as Dr. Tom Frieden)

George Gao

Self - Director of Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
(archive footage)

Alex Gibney

Narrator
(voice)

Alex Greninger

Self - Assistant Director, UW Medicine Clinical Virology
(as Dr. Alex Greninger)

Directors
Writer
- Alex Gibney
All cast & crew
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Storyline

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Trivia
One day after the film was completed, Donald Trump announced that he had contracted COVID-19.

Quotes
Michael Bowen: I'm a salesman telling a story nobody believes, the story that the U.S. mask supply is gonna collapse, and people are gonna die, and it doesn't cost much to fix. That's the story.
Michael Bowen: I'm getting five-hundred to one-thousand emails a day. I'm getting email from people, not businesses. I'm getting emails from moms. I'm getting emails from old people, 'Please send me masks,'
[chokes up]
Michael Bowen: and I can't.
[chokes up again, lip quivers]
Michael Bowen: I can't help all these people.

Connections
Features Red Dawn (1984)

Soundtracks
Time Is On My Side
Written by Jerry Ragovoy (as Norman Meade)
Performed by Irma Thomas
Published by TRO Essex Music Led.
Licensed courtesy of Capitol Redords
Under license from Universal Music Operations Ltd.

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Featured review

10/10

heartbreaking truths laid out for the viewer

Much of what is covered in the film is known, or could be known with some research. The value of Totally Under Control is the way the film lays out, step by step, the timeline of this tragedy. Here's hoping that we do, in fact, learn from this horror show and take steps to be better prepared for future emergencies, whether pandemics or other natural disasters. The more the public questions leaders and demands transparency, the better.