The documentary is more hopeful than most issue-based movies, which educate the audience about a major dilemma and then call it a day.
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Parents and health care workers are caught in the cross-hairs of violence and politics as they attempt to protect their children from Polio in Pakistan.
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The film couldn't be more timely and germane for the American audience. If it weren't a documentary, it would seem like a post-apocalyptic allegory of our own vaccination debate.
Provocative and hard-hitting, Every Last Child is a chilling reminder that even diseases once thought eradicated are still capable of rearing their ugly heads as a result of ignorance and prejudice.
Grim but worthwhile, this documentary on the war against polio in Pakistan often recalls our own anti-vaxer movement, with needlessly sickened children the depressing commonality.
This harrowing - yet nonetheless inspiring - documentary looks at the myriad hurdles in the fight to eradicate polio from Pakistan.
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