I was happy to see Michael Van ElZakker interviewed by Ryan Prior so he could explain his Vagus nerve hypothesis. The illustrations of how the Vagus nerve works were accompanied by animation so you could understand the hypothesis without having to be science literate.
David Tuller, a Berkley Professor, made an appearance since he was the journalist who exposed the PACE Trial to a wider audience. He stated that the criteria was bringing depressed people into the study, (who suffer from Chronic Fatigue and not the grossly misnamed disease Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) and that once the Lancet or other high profile journal picks up on a bad piece of science there isn't much that can be done about it. (It is rumored David Tuller will be speaking at the Forgotten Plague Amsterdam International Screening.) Hillary Johnson, who wrote Osler's Web, gives the viewer an excellent lesson of how the CDC and other government organizations wanted to make this disease go away, the renaming process from ME to CFS and money supposedly allotted to CFS research disappeared. Dr. Komaroff apologized for his part in renaming the disease which only helped to trivialize patient suffering. He is a good doctor who wanted to do the right thing then and the right thing now.
Nancy Klimas is a former HIV/AIDS researcher and she is now working to resolve ME/CFS, GWI and FMS. Biologists, computer scientists and engineers are all working together with super computers to understand how body cells and processes speak to one another.
In 67 minutes, (not 81 as indicated on IMDb) this video can leave a viewer with an understanding of just how an illness so severe can end up not thought of being more than a mental health issue, mostly self imposed. (This is shameful to the ME/CFS patient and those who suffer from mental health issues.) This also happened to MS, Epilepsy and even AIDS. It has been happening to ME/CFS for decades.
As a note: OP pointed out blurred camera or shadows. These were patients that recorded on their own camera phones or laptops their personal experiences and are brief. Also, they could not barrel into patient homes with bright lighting as the patient most likely could not bare up under the ocular insult. There is also old news footage. Most of this shoestring $120k start to finish documentary is very clear and well lit. Additionally, any more depth to this documentary and the general public would have no interest. This is an extremely complicated disease and political issue and to cover just what happened at Incline Village and the CFS name emerging, this alone would take 1 1/2 hours.
This is the history of the disease and its politics in a nutshell. And this is just the US story.