The Best Pandemics & Outbreaks Documentaries

Health & the Body - 74 free documentaries about pandemics & outbreaks.

Start with The Plague: How Did One Village Survive? (49 min, Timeline), then Invasive fungal infections - The new threat (42 min, DW Documentary). All 74 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on pandemics & outbreaks is The Great Influenza by John M. Barry.

• The Plague: How Did One Village Survive? | Riddle Of The Plague Survivors (49 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• Invasive fungal infections - The new threat (42 min, DW Documentary)
• How the World’s Deadliest Ebola Outbreak Unfolded (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• This Disease is Deadlier Than The Plague (11 min, Kurzgesagt)
• The Return of the Black Death: VICE Reports (Full Length) (22 min, VICE)
• Inside India's Catastrophic Second Wave (23 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• The Virus: What Went Wrong? (83 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• The Side Effects of Vaccines - How High is the Risk? (11 min, Kurzgesagt)
• How HIV Started a Century Before Anyone Noticed (28 min, Be Smart)
• Coronavirus Pandemic (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Coronavirus complications (28 min, DW Documentary)
• What This Chart Actually Means for COVID-19 (8 min, Be Smart)
• I Asked Bill Gates What's The Next Crisis? (13 min, Veritasium)
• Unmasking COVID-19's True Origin (89 min, Real Stories)
• Inside the Lab That Invented the COVID-19 Vaccine (12 min, Be Smart)
• How coronavirus is changing the world (47 min, DW Documentary)
• Inside Italy's COVID War (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Scientific Approach to Avoid Coronavirus COVID-19 (20 min, Tech Ingredients)
• The Danger of a New Black Death: Would Society Collapse? (44 min, ENDEVR)
• COVID's Hidden Toll (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Inside America's Hepatitis Epidemic (37 min, VICE)
• FRONTLINE | The Vaccine War (54 min, PBS)
• 1918: How The Spanish Flu Killed 50 Million People (49 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• How to Stop an Epidemic (16 min, Wendover Productions)
• Here's What I Learned From Getting COVID (18 min, Be Smart)
• COVID-19 & Mask Myths DEBUNKED! (14 min, Be Smart)
• Ebola in Congo (23 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Using a Bunch of Mousetraps to Explain How Pandemics Work (feat. @theslowmoguys) (16 min, Be Smart)
• The coronavirus pandemic and its consequences (86 min, DW Documentary)
• Knife Epidemic In Britain: When Teens Turn Into Killers (48 min, Real Stories)
• The Teen Steroid Epidemic Explained - Dr. Chris Raynor (24 min, After Skool)
• The Secret Plan To Reduce The World's Population (147 min, Real Stories)
• Can future pandemics be prevented? (29 min, DW Documentary)
• Coronavirus in Spain (28 min, DW Documentary)
• The Coronavirus Explained & What You Should Do (9 min, Kurzgesagt)
• Air Cargo's Coronavirus Problem (13 min, Wendover Productions)
• Why Deadly Viral Pandemics Are Becoming More Common (14 min, Be Smart)
• Tracking pandemics: Detecting new diseases early (26 min, DW Documentary)
• Yemen's COVID Cover-Up (27 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• The Deadliest Epidemics In Human History (26 min, Wonder)
• I Can't Believe We're Making Another COVID Video (17 min, Be Smart)
• Coronavirus in Berlin (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Lost Job, Lost Hope? | Surviving The Economic Collapse During The Pandemic (52 min, ENDEVR)
• COVID-19, Humans, and Wildlife: What Do We Know? (60 min, National Geographic)
• Tokyo 2021: Countdown during lockdown (43 min, DW Documentary)
• What Made the 1918 Flu Pandemic So Deadly? (9 min, Be Smart)
• What Bats Reveal About a Pandemic (22 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• The Plague and COVID-19 (26 min, DW Documentary)
• Is China's Coronavirus the Next Pandemic? (12 min, Real Science)
• 50 Million Dead: Inside The Flu That Stopped The World (49 min, Real Stories)
• Where Do Pandemics Come From? (29 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• Why Steroids Are a COVID-19 Game Changer (13 min, Real Science)
• The Challenge of COVID-19 Testing (16 min, Real Science)
• What will the world look like after corona? (46 min, VPRO Documentary)
• China Ends Zero-COVID Policy: Is The Pandemic Over? | Insight (48 min, CNA Insider)
• The coronavirus pandemic and family life (18 min, DW Documentary)
• Dr Simon Thornley: NZ University Statistics Dilute the Covid19 Narrative & Confounds Govt & Critics (60 min, Our Planet)
• Immunity for the Community (50 min, VICE)
• Virologists on the coronavirus outbreak (42 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Life After COVID Crisis: Can India Finally Recover? | Insight (47 min, CNA Insider)
• Dr Robin Kelly: The Covid Syndrome from a Doctor at the Coalface to the 4th Industrial AI revolution (60 min, Our Planet)
• How Do We Fix The Space Junk Epidemic? (54 min, Spark)
• The impact of the coronavirus on the economy (42 min, VPRO Documentary)
• China’s Post-COVID Era: Back In Business After Reopening For Six Months? (23 min, CNA Insider)
• After COVID-19: Are We Prepared For The Next Pandemic? | Insight | Coronavirus (46 min, CNA Insider)
• How Singapore Emerged From The COVID-19 Pandemic | Behind The Mask: Our Healthcare Story - Part 3/3 (23 min, CNA Insider)
• PBS American Portrait | In This Together - COVID-19 Special (26 min, PBS)
• Covid Vaccines and Variants: What Will it Take to Get Out of This Pandemic? (28 min, NOVA PBS Official)
• What It Took To Vaccinate Singapore Against COVID-19 | Behind The Mask: Our Healthcare Story - Pt 2 (23 min, CNA Insider)
• How Singapore Stood Up To Face COVID-19 | Behind The Mask: Our Healthcare Story - Part 1/3 (23 min, CNA Insider)
• Creating Makerspace: Overcoming The Pandemic & Beyond | A League Of Extraordinary Makers - Part 3/5 (47 min, CNA Insider)
• Janice Priest: COVID19, the Flu Blues and the Outrageous NZ Government Vaccine Claims (60 min, Our Planet)
• Pandemics and Pop Culture: Fiction or Reality? | Past Forward | American Experience | PBS (64 min, American Experience)
• How COVID Disinfection Is Done In Offices | The Big Clean Up (Part 2/6) (22 min, CNA Insider)

Top-Rated Books About Pandemics & Outbreaks

1. The Great Influenza by John M. Barry (3.9/5) - View on Amazon
2. Spillover by David Quammen - View on Amazon
3. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston (4/5) - View on Amazon
4. The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson (4/5) - View on Amazon