The Story of Dr. Jenner

The Story of Dr. Jenner 1939

1

This short focuses on the story of Dr. Edward Jenner, who developed vaccination.

1939

80,000 Suspects

80,000 Suspects 1963

6.50

A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.

1963

A Matter of WHO

A Matter of WHO 1961

6.20

Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East.

1961

Winterhawk

Winterhawk 1975

6.60

Smallpox plagues Chief Winterhawk's tribe. He seeks cure from the white men, who in turn, in fear of getting the smallpox, kill two of his companions. Winterhawk comes back to kidnap a girl and her brother from the white men's settlement, and thus begins the chase...

1975

Demon in the Freezer

Demon in the Freezer 2016

6.00

Errol Morris' "Demon in the Freezer" is a short 17-minute documentary about the stockpiles of the smallpox virus that remain stored for research purposes.

2016

Tale of a Dog

Tale of a Dog 1944

6.00

When Bigshot Jones gives his unnamed dog to the All-For-One Club, Buckwheat quickly names the canine "Smallpox", inadvertently causing a city-wide panic.

1944

Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock

Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock 1962

3.80

Five passengers in a stagecoach are abandoned by their driver in the desert. Trying to survive, they struggle with illness, thirst, hunger, and the threats posed both by one another and the local Indigenous peoples.

1962

Battling Marshal

Battling Marshal 1950

1

In one of his last film roles, legendary B-Western cowboy Sunset Carson roots out the varmints responsible for a false smallpox scare. After arriving in the small town of Quartzville, Carson determines that a crooked lawyer-and-doctor team created a false smallpox epidemic in order to seize a gold mine from an old man and his family. Carson and his friends set out to bring the villains to justice. Al Terry, Pat Starling and Lee Roberts co-star.

1950

In the Days of Famine

In the Days of Famine 1915

1

Jan De Bar, a young French-Canadian, is sent out from the Hudson Bay Company's post at God's Lake to perform the perilous task of burning the plague-stricken cabins of those who have died of the dreaded smallpox. In one of them he finds Jeanette, a little girl, who, by some miracle, has escaped the plague.

1915

Rotten Faith

Rotten Faith 2020

7.00

XIXth century brazilian countryside. After losing their daughter and granddaughter to smallpox, an elderly couple sees their faith rot.

2020