The film is about Jonas Salk and his team at the University of Pittsburgh who pulled together with a nation to conquer one of the most feared diseases of the twentieth century, polio, and current efforts to finish the job and make the world polio free. Shot began as a class project at the University of Pittsburgh based on footage culled from the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Salk vaccine.
The film is about Jonas Salk and his team at the University of Pittsburgh who worked together with the nation to conquer polio, one of the most feared diseases of the 20th century. The movie was initially created as a class project at the University of Pittsburgh using footage from the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Salk vaccine.