“Epidemics, Another Story: How Major Outbreaks Have Shaped Civilization”

With the documentary “Epidemics, another story”, Clélie Mathias sets out to meet historians and other experts to explain how major epidemics have shaped today’s world. To discover from May 15 on Planète+ and myCANAL.

A bad for a good. Becoming a mother in 2020, a year marked by the coronavirus epidemic, Clélie Mathias has chosen to send a message of hope to future generations, and in the first place to her son. “My treasure, my son, you were born in 2020, the year of the Covid pandemic. For some it is the worst possible year. I’m going to show you that it’s a chance to have seen the light of day in 2020. From evil often comes good, that’s the lesson of the history of humanity, ”she writes in particular in the preamble to his documentary “Epidemics, another story”.

The journalist gives the floor to historians and other experts to explain how the major epidemics that have hit the world over the centuries, including that of the coronavirus in 2020, have shaped civilizations. And are at the origin of major changes, both economic and social. Thus the Black Death in Europe precipitated the end of the feudal system, and accelerated the establishment of a public health organization. Cholera has, for its part, profoundly modified the town planning of the capitals of London and Paris.

The documentary “Epidemics, another story” will be available on May 15, at 9 p.m., on Planète +. And will be available immediately, on demand, on the streaming platform myCANAL the same day.