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Episode 01 November 2020

Filmed during lockdown, this investigative documentary made by Academy Award® winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room), with co-directors Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger, includes revealing testimonies from public health officials and senior White House staff, exposing a system-wide collapse. \nWith the US election just around the corner, the film scrutinises the US response compared with South Korea, and how they handled the virus. On January 20th, 2020 both countries discovered their first cases of Covid-19. Since then, however, the novel Coronavirus has claimed the lives of over 220,000* Americans, while only claiming 447* lives in South Korea (*at the time of publication).\nIt will be a generation before we know the full extent of the damage wrought by this pandemic, but Totally Under Control: Trump and Covid-19 will stand as the definitive account of the Trump’s administration’s strongly criticised response in the face of this global pandemic.

Source: BBC 2