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The First Wave (2021)

When Covid-19 hit New York City in 2020, filmmaker Matthew Heineman gained unique access to one of New York's hardest-hit hospital systems. The resulting film focuses on the doctors, nurses, and patients on the frontlines during the "first wave" from March to June 2020.

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Teo Bugbee 18 Nov 2021

The film succeeds in presenting an on-the-ground view of what it felt like to be inside a hospital in the spring of 2020. It was harrowing, death was everywhere and there was no end in sight.

Todd Gilchrist 07 Oct 2021

The filmmaker’s juxtaposition of overworked physicians and desperate patients offers a concentrated and intimate look at the bottomless, unimaginable depths of loss as well as the indefatigable reservoir of hope that sustains humanity during its darkest moments.

bertobellamy 10 Feb 2022

This documentary about an NYC hospital facing the horrors of the first months of the pandemic has unsettling moments. Watching someone die because of COVID-19 strikes you in every way and makes you consider even more what you're doing to protect yourself and others. The problem that I found with it it's the presence of former NY governor Andrew Cuomo. What was the purpose of it? I'm pretty sure director Matthew Heineman didn't intend to clean his image; still, it was very distracting to watch that guy and some big CEOs trying to calm people. The real heroes — sorry for using that term, because some of the nurses and doctors in the film say that they don't feel like that — are the ones risking their own lives to save others, and they deserved all the screen time.

Cath Clarke 23 Nov 2021

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.

Jared Mobarak 22 Nov 2021

Watching Matthew Heineman’s documentary The First Wave isn’t therefore a casualty of diminishing returns due to a false sense of redundancy. If anything, it proves more powerful from accumulation.