13 min.
2022
The Great Silence is a short documentary that takes as its launching point the mystery of why President Woodrow Wilson never publicly addressed the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-19, even as it killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. Guided by historian John Barry, and constructed out of the archival remains of the era, its story of hubris and public health reverberates through the last 100 years of history and into our present crisis.