SECRETS IN THE BONES
THE HUNT FOR THE BLACK DEATH KILLER
CBC TELEVISION, THE NATURE OF THINGS
2014 | 44 mins
It was called the Black Death and it killed more than 50 million people. But 600 years after it struck no one knows what caused it. To this day it remains one of the greatest scientific mysteries of our time.
Now a modern day Indian Jones is on a quest to solve this ancient mystery, a discovery that could help us fight deadly infectious diseases today.
Hendrik Poinar is an evolutionary biologist. In an epic global journey he goes in search of the remains of people killed by The Black Death. He believes their bones still contain vestiges of the pathogen that took their lives. With new technology developed by his lab, Poinar believes he can extract it and identify what it is.
Secrets in the Bones is a fascinating investigation that follows Poinar from a newly discovered Black Death cemetery in Italy to a top secret anti-terrorism facility in the United States, to a bone repository in the United Kingdom to the labs at the Centres of Disease Control and Prevention in Colorado as he attempts to do something no other scientist has achieved before - resurrect an ancient pathogen.
In the process, Secrets in the Bones provides an inside look at an extraordinary scientific discovery that could change the way we fight killer diseases of the 21st century.
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Director and Writer
Liam O’rinn
Narrator
Dugald Maudsley
Executive Producer
Dugald Maudsley
Editor
Eamonn O’Connor
Music By
Todor Kobakov
Director of Photography
Jerry Vienneau
Sound Recordist
Michael Kennedy
Researcher
Monika Delmos
Production Manager
Diane Marcotte
Production Coordinator
Gillian Main
Visual Effects Designer
Mark Alberts, Electric Square
Post Production Supervisor/Online Editor
Eric Wiegand
Visual Researcher
Elspeth Domville
Sound Design
Grant Edmonds
The Dark Studio Sound Company
Colour Correction
Technicolor Creative Services Canada Inc.
Publicist
David Mccaughna
Stills Photography
Glenn Lowson
Archival Material Courtesy Of
Bridgeman Art Library
Clare Flemming/American Museum of Natural History
Paul, Debbie, and Diana Gaylord
Discovery Footagesource/Getty Images
Framepool
iStock
Museum of London Archaeology
Pond5
Screenocean
T3 Media
©roger-viollet / The Image Works
Special Thanks
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute
Field School Pozzeveri
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
McMaster University
Museum of London
Pistoia Sotterranea
Spitalfields Charnel House
St Giles’ Cripplegate
St. Paul’s United Church
Toscana Film Commission
Tübingen University
No Animals Were Harmed in the Making of This Documentary
Apart from the Flea
For Infield Fly Productions
Producer
Dugald Maudsley
Business Affairs
Gillian Main
Production Accountant
Anne Sinclair
Legal Counsel
David Steinberg
For the CBC
Executives in Charge of Production for Cbc the Nature of Things
Sue Dando, Executive Producer
Fm Morrison, Senior Producer
Produced with the Participation Of
Canada Media Fund
Ontario Media Development Corporation
The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit
Rogers Telefilm
Produced with the Cooperation Of
Canadian Federation of Musicians
Produced in Association With
The Nature of Things with David Suzuki
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
cbc.ca/natureofthings
(Copyright 2014)
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