Medicine Movies

Sissy, a pink-loving beginner ghost, is simply looking for peace in an empty clinic. But her quiet afterlife takes a dark turn when she uncovers an...

The film recounts the incredible research conducted by François Cartault, a pediatrician and geneticist on the island of Réunion....

Documentary written and presented by scientist Richard Dawkins, in which he seeks to expose "those areas of belief that exist without scientific...

Two paramedics are awoken on the overnight shift for a 911 call unlike any other.

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

The film explores the daily lives of three children with Congenital insensitivity to pain, a rare genetic disorder shared by just a hundred people in...

Benjamin Woolley presents the gripping story of Nicholas Culpeper, the 17th century radical pharmacist who took on the establishment in order to...

A documentary that examines the issue of forced live organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience, and the response - or lack of it - around...

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...

Robert Koch is one of the superstars of the scientific world. In countless publications, Robert Koch is enthusiastically celebrated as the savior of...

A promising drug gives Oliver new hope for his sister Jenny, who has ALS. But the doctor refuses to administer the treatment because it hasn't been...

This PBS documentary explores depression, a debilitating disease that affects millions of Americans. Touching the lives of people from diverse...

With its recognisable bright red cap with white spots, the fly agaric (amanita muscaria) seems like the archetype of the fairy tale toadstool. But it...

Public health physician Noel Nutels' ideas and the footage he made of Brazilian indigenous peoples between 1940 and 1970 come together to denounce...

Why is a person evil? Is evil in the genes? These questions have always preoccupied people. The approaches to explaining evil are as varied as evil...

There is a sterile megapolis outside. Chaos of pain and despair reigns there. People have lost their ability to be people and death is waiting for...

Tuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost two centuries. While it shaped medical pursuits,...