Eagle Peak Media

An exclusive look at the private world of aristocratic Newport, Rhode Island –– a world of privilege that began with the Gilded Age, when Vanderbilts and Astors reigned. The story is told through the focus of one of the last grand dames, Eileen Gillespie Slocum, descendant of Browns, who died on July 27, 2008 at the age of 92.

This compelling documentary offers a moving portrait of people touched by the deadly tuberculosis epidemic that plagued America in the early 20th century and of those around the world who suffer from the disease today. Filmmakers David Bettencourt and G. Wayne Miller weave powerful images with interviews that shed light on this tragic illness, which remains the second deadliest infectious disease in the world today.