Ken Burns Films

The Gene Part 1: Dawn of the Modern Age of Genetics (2020x2)

Air date: Apr 07, 2020

Part One interweaves the present-day story of the Rosens, a young family on an odyssey to find a cure for their four-year-old daughter’s rare genetic disease, with stories of the exciting discoveries of the early pioneers in genetics. This episode also tracks the dark period in human history when a little genetic knowledge was used to justify terrifying human experiments.