Fauci

Dr. Fauci played an important role in fight against two pandemics - HIV and COVID-19. His contributions to translating scientific findings for public health purposes is second to none. This biography documents his contributions excellently! As a society we are truly blessed to have leaders like Fauci who facilitated the search for treatment as well as prevention of HIV infection, and during the COVID pandemic in developing a government vaccine strategy that helped us go from virus discovery to mass-scale vaccinations in less than 1 year - something mankind never accomplished before.

A lot of the other reviews expect a documentary to be balanced - I don't see the need for that. Most documentaries highlight the views of the filmmaker. Even if the filmmakers/ producers try to be unbiased, it is truly a difficult task to find major flaws in the life of someone who has tirelessly worked for public good for several decades.

This is an important film, because the main subject is in some ways, NOT Dr. Anthony Fauci, but the concept of, and the acceptance of, science.

This doc includes a large part of the HIV/AIDS controversy, and Dr. Fauci's part in bringing it into the daynight for inspection. Coincidentally enough, this quote is from that era:

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'." -Isaac Asimov, January 21, 1980.

Go see this film, and make your own judgements. It is well-made, and important!

This excellent documentary is unlikely to quiet the hate propaganda and misinformation we've seen directed toward Dr. Fauci and his family. It does a great job, however, at exposing the facts of his long public service to the health of our country. This film reveals his un-biased public service to the country regardless of which political parties sit in the oval office or dominate U. S. Congress. An interesting and well-done glimpse into the many challenges ALL public health agencies across the globe have faced for decades. (If we could develop vaccines for ignorance & snap judgments, public health would also be improved!) This film reminds us how much we (all humans) need true public servants like Dr. Fauci to protect us from political gamesmanship & ulterior motives. Great vintage footage, interviews, pacing & lighting -- easy to watch & I wanted to know more when it was finished!

I very much liked this movie for two reasons: 1) It's a useful and evenhanded documentary of one of the leading Public Health experts in the world and, because of that, very much worth watching if you have an interest in Fauci, epidemiology, or public health. Well paced, interesting, and informative.

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2) The long list of sad, triggered keyboard warriors that couldn't help but give 1 star "reviews" of this title (ironically showing they hadn't bothered watching it) that amount to mass-screaming "Dunning-Kruger!!" into the void because their fee-fees were hurt.

More content like this, please.

Good documentaries with a delicious dessert of willfully ignorant tears is just the best.

The. Best.

The only reason that I noticed this documentary was the huge difference if the percentage in Rotten Tomatoes between critics and audiences. Something must be wrong here.

I don't know much about Fauci and didn't closely follow the updates on COVID-19 politics back when the pandemic started, so I can't say much about the accuracy of this documentary.

What I can talk about tho, was the messy organization. Since this is about Fauci, why didn't they just follow the timeline? They kept jump back and forth between AIDS, Ebola, and COVID-19. I was like what the heck was going on? The first transition from AIDS epidemic to COVID-19 pandemic is an example, and the worst one, of the many abrupt changes in this documentary.

One particularly alarming part about Fauci was his first meeting with his wife. His wife, a nurse, back then said something that I'm pretty sure is illegal and could jeopardize someone's life. However, the story ignored that as just a joke? I guess? That was just weird.

As a documentary that was supposed to explore Fauci, it did a poor job because most of the runtime was surface-level stuff. There was a lot of glorious talking without much deep dive into what Fauci actually did. Not that the information shown is wrong (I don't know), but that I want more.

Overall, a poorly-made documentary that didn't offer much. If you want an excellent documentary on COVID-19, watch Totally Under Control, which showed some wild and infuriating stuff that I never thought a government could do. 4/10.