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With exclusive access inside one of New York’s hardest hit hospital systems during the terrifying first four months of the pandemic, Oscar®-nominated and Emmy® Award-winning director Matthew Heineman’s THE FIRST WAVE spotlights the everyday heroes at the epicenter of COVID-19 as they come together to fight one of the greatest threats the world has ever encountered. Leaving a devastating trail of death and despair, this once-in-a-century pandemic changed the very fabric of our daily lives and exposed long-standing inequities in our society.
Employing his signature approach of character-driven cinema vérité, Heineman embeds with a group of doctors, nurses and patients on the frontlines as they all desperately try to navigate the crisis. With each distinct storyline serving as a microcosm
| Running Time: | 93 min. |
| Subject(s): | Current Affairs, Ethnography, Health, Science, Society |
| Language(s): | English |
| Subtitles: | English |
| Director(s): | |
| Producer(s): | Matthew Heineman, Jenna Millman, Leslie Norville |
| Cinematographer: | Ross McDonnell, Thorsten Thielow, Brian Dawson, Matthew Heineman, Alex Pritz |
| Editor(s): | Francisco Bello, Matthew Heineman, Gabriel Rhodes, David Zieff |
| Production Company: | Our Time Projects |
