Smallpox (TV 2002)

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120 min - Drama

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A docu-drama that reports on a (fictitious) attack made by terrorist using the disease of small pox to attack the world... See full summary »

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Brian Cox	...	Narrator (voice)
	Bolen High	...	Jack Hill
	Leigh Zimmerman	...	Lesley Peters
	Tara Hugo	...	Kathleen O'Reilly
	Ben Chinn	...	New York Reporter
	Sterling K. Brown	...	Carl Jocelyn
	Edward Lewin	...	Sam Wiseman
	Steven Crossley	...	Richard Benson
	John Hug	...	Pierre Lefevre
	Nadia Cameron-Blakey	...	Rachel Smits
	Sudha Bhuchar	...	Dr. Farah Khanum
	John Harding	...	Nigel Woods
	Tom Cotcher	...	Chief Supt. Clive McAdams
	Rowan Schlosberg	...	John Peters
	Margot Knight	...	Nancy Peters

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Storyline

A docu-drama that reports on a (fictitious) attack made by terrorist using the disease of small pox to attack the world. Starting in New York the attack is ruthlessly carried out by one man travelling around the city infecting people as he goes. Using hindsight and video diaries the film looks back on the global impact of a silent attack that affected the world. Written by bob the moo

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It's all true. It just hasn't happened yet.

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Drama

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Official Sites:

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Language:

English

Release Date:

2 January 2005 (USA) See more »

Also Known As:

Secret Futures: Smallpox See more »

Filming Locations:

Geneva, Canton de Genève, Switzerland See more »

Company Credits

Production Co:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Granada International, Learning Channel (TLC), The See more »

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Technical Specs

Runtime:

USA: 120 min (including commercials)

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

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Trivia

In the introduction, narrator Brian Cox gives the worldwide death toll for the Great Smallpox Pandemic of 2002 as 60 million. By contrast, the Black Death of 1340s, generally regarded as the deadliest pandemic in recorded history - at least in absolute terms - is estimated to have killed 75 million people worldwide. See more »

Goofs

Errors in geography: About one out of every 30 Americans live in New York City. We are told 30,000 people died from Smallpox in New York City, and a further 1.5 million died in the United States (a ratio of one out of every 50 American deaths taking place in New York City). The number of New York fatalities therefore appears disproportionately low, particularly since infectious diseases spread more comprehensively in densely populated areas. See more »

Quotes

Kathleen O'Reilly: We used to believe that the greatest threat to the United States were the nuclear arsenals of a rogue state, but in this world today, a terrorist with the will to sacrifice his own life, armed only with a penknife and a pilot's license, is capable of anything... The greatest threat, as we now know, is a single individual with a $50 chemistry set and the will to decimate the planet.
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Crazy Credits

Three of the interview subjects play themselves in the movie, and are
revealed in clips during the credits. All of them offer an opinion on how
the fictional documentary could reflect actual events. See more »