Medicine Movies

Sandra is a sick kid, her parents are looking for the expensive medicine.

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

In the summer of 1928, the Scottish physician Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by accident, but it would take two more decades and a world war...

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

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

Modern advice and old-fashioned values combine in this postwar animated health guide from the makers of Animal Farm.

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 Connection is a film about how frontier research is proving that there is a direct connection between your mind and your health.

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

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...

An intimate, funny and compelling take on the unique relationship and shared legacy of Tommy John, the chatty Indiana lefty who won nearly 300 Major...

BBC medical editor Fergus Walsh examines the extraordinary ambition behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid jab. Intended as a vaccine for the world, did...

Everyone lies, even several times a day. Although this is considered immoral, it seems to be an ancient natural habit. Animals also tell lies for...

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...

Through interviews with leading psychologists and scientists, Neurons to Nirvana explores the history of four powerful psychedelic substances (LSD,...

In the farmhouse Gaikoborda, located in the north of Navarre, a mournful family lives; dad, mom, and their four children: Jon, the paraplegic...