Given that it lays out in unsparing terms the extent of a staggering American failure that ranks up there with 9/11 and Pearl Harbor, “Totally Under Control” is a surprisingly calm piece of work. A damning account of how the greatest technological, scientific, and military power on the planet laid down and allowed a pandemic to march right over it, the documentary is filled with eyewitnesses to the clown show who still don’t appear able to process what they saw. Towards the end, when they start realizing just how monumentally unwilling the American government was to muster even minimal interest in warding off a deadly disease with a modicum of professionalism and efficiency, a few begin to choke back tears of anger and disbelief. In a country where the movie could be safely watched in a theater, audience members would be tempted to hurl their shoes at the screen.