Wuhan Wuhan
Season 35 Episode 1 | 1h 24m 25sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
Citizens in the city of Wuhan unite to grapple with a mysterious virus called COVID-19.
With unprecedented access in a period of pandemic lockdown, Wuhan Wuhan documents February and March 2020 in Wuhan where the coronavirus was first discovered. Going beyond the statistics and salacious headlines, frontline medical workers, patients, and ordinary citizens put a human face on the early days of the mysterious virus as they grapple with an invisible, deadly killer.
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Wuhan Wuhan
Season 35 Episode 1 | 1h 24m 25sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
With unprecedented access in a period of pandemic lockdown, Wuhan Wuhan documents February and March 2020 in Wuhan where the coronavirus was first discovered. Going beyond the statistics and salacious headlines, frontline medical workers, patients, and ordinary citizens put a human face on the early days of the mysterious virus as they grapple with an invisible, deadly killer.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪♪ ♪♪ -Next on "POV," in early 2020, frontline workers and families in Wuhan, China, unite to confront an emerging crisis.
An intimate portrait of love in a time of uncertainty.
"Wuhan Wuhan" on "POV."
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♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Foghorn blows ] ♪♪ ♪♪ -[ Speaking indistinctly ] ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Speaking indistinctly ] ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Door closes ] [ Sink running ] -[ Speaking Chinese ] [ Sizzling ] -[ Coughs ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Both chuckle ] [ Laughs ] [ Birds chirping ] -[ Speaking Chinese ] -[ Chuckles ] [ Monitors beeping ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Conversing in Chinese ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ -[ Laughs ] -[ Speaking Chinese ] -[ Speaking Chinese ] -[ Speaking Chinese ] -[ Laughs ] [ Laughs ] [ Ringtone plays ] [ Chuckles ] [ Laughs ] -[ Sniffles ] [ Monitors beeping ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Siren wailing ] ♪♪ [ Engine starts ] -[ Laughs ] [ Siren blaring ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Sighs ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Monitor beeping ] [ Laughs ] [ Monitors beeping ] [ Beeping ] -How is she feeling?
She is, uh, sad.
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-Oh!
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[ Speaking Chinese ] -[ Laughs ] [ Conversing in Chinese ] [ Conversing in Chinese ] -[ Laughs ] ♪♪ -[ Speaking Chinese ] -[ Laughs ] -[ Laughing ] [ Toy rooster crowing ] -"Wuhan Wuhan" is a feature observational documentary that goes beyond the salacious headlines of Wuhan the city as the epicenter of a coronavirus and really zooms in and focuses on the humanistic portraits of five story lines, a handful of participants, as they experience the unknown virus in February and March 2020, which was really the first wave and the peak of the pandemic at that time in China.
It's been two years almost plus since the beginning of the pandemic, and I think a film like "Wuhan Wuhan" that is not dissimilar to our own experiences here in North America.
And I think that the thematic tone of the story is really about how we deal with extreme situations of crises and how we can come together to help each other through those crises.
And I see that happening not only through the film with the individuals we followed, their selflessness, but also just through everyday stories here in North America, and I've been encountering that in how people have been gracious and helpful to me and to my family in these really extraordinary times.
But if anything, I'm hoping that this film offers a moment of reflection and a moment of reassurance, perhaps, that everything might be okay.
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Citizens in the city of Wuhan unite to grapple with a mysterious virus called COVID-19. (2m)
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