Medicine Movies

Every year many new drugs come to market which offer hope to the sick and dying. This documentary film investigates just how far drug companies are...

Seda, a family doctor in a rural town in the middle of Anatolia, goes to work on a regular Friday, but trying to do her duties right in front of some...

If We Knew is a documentary about paediatricians in an intensive-care unit for newborns. A film about the compassion needed to heal the sick and...

Explores the little-known history and humanity of the unsung Filipino nurses risking their lives on the front lines of a pandemic, thousands of miles...

In 1951, a woman died in Baltimore, U.S.A. She was called Henrietta Lacks. These are cells from her body. They were taken from her just before she...

The film tells the stories of five people with special abilities who treat and heal their patients in an unconventional way. These charismatic...

Scientist Mark Plotkin races against time to save the ancient healing knowledge of Indian tribes from extinction.

Living in a village full of slopes can drive you mad. Those who have climbed them in the old-fashioned way are fully aware of that. What they...

The UN General Assembly regards antibiotic-resistance as a "global and most urgent threat". The WHO alarms that we could fall back into a...

Portrayal of a surgeon who feels stifled by Swedish bureaucracy and relocates to Ethiopia to practice medicine. In a small field hospital, with...

Expert John Wass presents a documentary telling the story of how hormones were discovered and remain at medicine's cutting edge as we try to deal...

A document on a new method of treating scarlet fever with penicillin.

Sometimes the most beautiful men harbor the ugliest secrets. Two guys are naked in bed, having sex. One man gets up, uses the bathroom, gets...

Phases of Matter follows living and inanimate residents of a teaching hospital in Istanbul, moving from the operating room to the morgue, between...

A reality in which the definitive cure for HIV-AIDS has been found. The government, through the media, makes the announcement official and with it...

This 1959 documentary short is a frank portrait of the daily operations inside the Montreal General Hospital’s emergency ward.

Faceless is a documentary film about the workings of an inpatient psychiatry unit, seen through the eyes of both the patients trying to get well and...