Production credits vary for each episode. Letterboxed. Special features: NOW interview with former President Jimmy Carter; dispatches from experts in the field; materials for educators; activities for exploring global health issues; access to the Rx for Survival web site.

disc 1.Disease warriors. Rise of the superbugs -- -- disc. 2. Delivering the goods. Deadly messengers -- -- disc 3. Back to the basics. How safe are we?.

Produced in association with John Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health; music composer, Sheldon Mirowitz; series creative consultant, Richard Dale; series advisors, Barry Bloom ... [et. al.]; senior producer, Lisa Mirowitz; executives-in-charge, Vulcan Productions, Paul G. Allen, Jody Patton; executive-in-charge, WGBH/NOVA Science Unit, Paula S. Aspell.

Narrator, Brad Pitt.

Examines the most critical health threats facing the world today by portraying conditions in over twenty countries, examining why diseases that are curable still persist, the efforts to treat them, and the dangers of new "superbugs."

DVD.

Educational public performance rights for life of disc.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.