Ebola: Inside an Outbreak

60 minutes • Documentary • Produced in association with: CBC, NOVA, WGBH/Boston and Channel 4 • Production year: 1996

In May and June of 1995, the deadliest disease known to the human species emerged from a Zairian rainforest – Ebola.

For the first time ever, a documentary takes viewers inside a viral outbreak and the battle to contain it. Ebola: Inside an Outbreak/The Plague Fighters goes beyond the headlines and past the quarantine lines for an up close and unsettling look at the Ebola outbreak in Kikwit, Zaire.

Ebola: Inside an Outbreak/The Plague Fighters is an insightful, well-researched and dramatic account of a life and death skirmish with one of the most deadly viruses known to humankind.

Directed by: Ric Esther Bienstock
Producers: Simcha Jacobovici, Elliott Halpern and Ric Esther Bienstock
Associate Producer: Marike Emery