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Leaving a devastating trail of death and despair, this once-in-a-century pandemic changed the very fabric of our daily lives and exposed long-standing inequities in our society. Employing his signature approach of character-driven cinema vérité, Heineman embeds with a group of doctors, nurses and patients on the frontlines as they all desperately try to navigate the crisis. With each distinct storyline serving as a microcosm through which we can view the emotional and societal impacts of the pandemic, THE FIRST WAVE is a testament to the strength of the human spirit. Read More Read Less Watch on Hulu Stream Now Where to Watch What to Know Reviews Cast & Crew More Like This Related News Videos Photos Media Info WHERE TO WATCH THE FIRST WAVE Hulu Watch The First Wave with a subscription on Hulu. The First Wave WHAT TO KNOW Critics Consensus The First Wave presents a starkly gripping snapshot of a crisis unfolding -- and its grim toll on those who put their lives on the line to fight it. Read Critics Reviews CRITICS REVIEWS View All (40) Critics Reviews Danny Leigh Financial Times This is war reportage. But unpacking the metaphor of battle, so casually thrown around in the past 21 months, is part of the film's value. Rated: 4/5 • Nov 25, 2021 Full Review Randy Myers San Jose Mercury News [A] gripping, powerful documentary... Nov 24, 2021 Full Review Cath Clarke Guardian This remarkable film feels like it could become a time capsule, showing future generations what it felt like in 2020 for those on the frontline. Rated: 4/5 • Nov 23, 2021 Full Review Ally Ham Video Librarian Magazine The First Wave is a hard-hitting documentary that tugs on each and every heartstring. Rated: 4/5 • Jul 19, 2024 Full Review Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies It all makes for a piercing experience. One that I can see impacting generations with its clear-eyed perspective on that terrible first wave. Rated: 4/5 • Aug 16, 2022 Full Review Zoë Rose Bryant Next Best Picture The First Wave is an unsettling but urgently necessary chronicle of the conditions in one of New York's hardest-hit hospital systems during the frustrating first four months of the pandemic, captured with unflinching candor. Rated: 7/10 • Jul 14, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews AUDIENCE REVIEWS View All (13) audience reviews Audience Member This is a under-appreciated and well acted story about the personal decisions the first Mars mission crew of 5 diverse individuals has to make before committing to a 2.5 year voyage to Mars and back. I would have loved to see a second season. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/21/22 Full Review Audience Member Nat Geo continues to dominate the doc game with a difficult, highly emotional, and even uplifting, view of the first four months of the pandemic in NYC. I appreciated the approach, following both specific doctors and patients, allowing the audience to experience a taste of the emotional toll the ups and downs faced while battling this totally unknown virus took on all involved. I assumed this wouldn't be an easy watch but found myself tearing up multiple times, for a number of different reasons both negative and positive, and would find it hard to come out of watching this unaffected. Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Seriously spot on, from an ICU nurse perspective. I felt everything that they said, did, and felt!!! 2020 was crazy year, that nobody will forget. It was great how they tired everything together from covid to George Floyd. Then leaving off to the second covid spike. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review dave d Be careful which politician you use as the through line of your documentary! Hearing Andrew Cuomo was unfortunate, but it is more important to see and acknowledge the first doctors and nurses to battle Covid-19. It's no wonder nurses are quitting at record rates! The doc follows several patients and front-line hospital workers as they cope mentally and physically with the first stages of the pandemic. It's harrowing and sometime impossible to watch, but if you're curious why so many people are scared nearly two years later, this is a fantastic film to illustrate that! Final Score: 7.7/10 Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review renaldo d Director managed to bring touching stories and show the fast pace of the routine of essential service workers. Great documentary. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member This didn't look natural at all. No disrespect to the efforts of the frontline workers, but if I knew nothing about this pandemic, I'd not take this as documentary. This looked scripted and many of the depicted events were quite clearly captured with professional video equipment. Who goes with full camera setup in a hospital overrun by sick people to shoot scenes whose value wouldn't have been known at the time? And those hospital scenes with 10 doctors and nurses attending to a single patient with half of them virtually doing nothing but just standing there. Really? How realistic is this to happen in a hospital overwhelmed by pandemic? Sorry, but this looks like a piece of propaganda, to reignite fear and anxiety, coming out at opportune moment when people started to move on... Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews The First Wave MY RATING Read More Read Less POST RATING WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW CAST & CREW Matthew Heineman Director Nathalie Dougé Self Matthew Heineman Producer Jenna Millman Producer Leslie Norville Producer Maiken Baird Executive Producer Show Less Cast & Crew Show More Cast & Crew MORE LIKE THIS View All Best Movies to Stream at Home Every Body 98% 96% Every Body TRAILER for Every Body Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS 100% 80% Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS TRAILER for Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS Bring Your Own Brigade 89% 100% Bring Your Own Brigade TRAILER for Bring Your Own Brigade Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain 91% 94% Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain TRAILER for Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain LA 92 97% 93% LA 92 TRAILER for LA 92 Discover more movies and TV shows. View More RELATED MOVIE NEWS View All Related Movie News Awards Leaderboard: Top Movies of 2021 Indie Fresh List: C’mon C’mon, tick, tick… BOOM!, and More VIDEOS View All videos THE FIRST WAVE The First Wave: Trailer 1 The First Wave: Trailer 1 2:18 View more videos PHOTOS View All The First Wave photos THE FIRST WAVE The First Wave (2021) The First Wave (2021) The First Wave (2021) View more photos MOVIE INFO Synopsis With exclusive access inside one of New York's hardest hit hospital systems during the terrifying first four months of the pandemic, Oscar®-nominated and Emmy® Award-winning director Matthew Heineman's THE FIRST WAVE spotlights the everyday heroes at the epicenter of COVID-19 as they come together to fight one of the greatest threats the world has ever encountered. Leaving a devastating trail of death and despair, this once-in-a-century pandemic changed the very fabric of our daily lives and exposed long-standing inequities in our society. Employing his signature approach of character-driven cinema vérité, Heineman embeds with a group of doctors, nurses and patients on the frontlines as they all desperately try to navigate the crisis. With each distinct storyline serving as a microcosm through which we can view the emotional and societal impacts of the pandemic, THE FIRST WAVE is a testament to the strength of the human spirit. Director Matthew Heineman Producer Matthew Heineman, Jenna Millman, Leslie Norville Distributor National Geographic Documentary Films Production Co National Geographic Documentary Films, Our Time Projects, Participant Rating R (Some Language) Genre Documentary Original Language English Release Date (Theaters) Nov 19, 2021, Limited Release Date (Streaming) Jan 20, 2022 Box Office (Gross USA) $60.5K Runtime 1h 33m Most Popular at Home Now What to Watch In Theaters Now Playing View All Now Playing The Duel BLACKPINK WORLD TOUR [BORN PINK] IN CINEMAS The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola Shivam Bhaje Trap 44% Harold and the Purple Crayon 33% Coming soon View All Coming soon Happy Campers The Metropolitan Opera: Turandot It Ends With Us Borderlands At Home Most popular View All Most popular Thelma 99% A Quiet Place: Day One 87% Deadpool 85% Once Upon a Deadpool 56% The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare 69% Hit Man 95% Land of Bad 66% Deadpool 2 84% Kill 90% Hillbilly Elegy 25% TV Shows New TV Tonight View All New TV Tonight Lady in the Lake 76% Troppo 100% The Serpent Queen 100% Fairly OddParents: A New Wish Most Popular on RT View All Most Popular on RT Batman: Caped Crusader 100% Time Bandits 80% A Good Girl's Guide to Murder 83% Certified Fresh Shows View All Certified Fresh Shows About Tomatometer The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive review. 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