Medicine Movies

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...

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...

Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen is a 2009 television drama. It deals with Dr James Niven's attempts to deal with the 1918 flu pandemic in...

In Nigeria, a young Canadian doctor serves in a local mission hospital and learns much from the experience. Stationed abroad under the Canadian...

In a monotone and a long-walk routine, Heitor is headed to another work day, until something begins to follow him

Cut off from his loved ones due to the strict COVID-19 lockdown at the long-term care facility where he lives, a quadriplegic rabbi is filmed by his...

A medical intern finds himself drawn into a world of international intrigue after discovering a shrunken human head in his luggage.

The extraordinary moving story of Toni Crews, a young mum with a rare terminal cancer who charted her illness online before donating her body for...

Aboard their cart, Dr. Rhubarb and assistant Cough travel from house to house to cure absurd diseases with their innovative remedies. Loosely...

Hygienic habits are as old as the various human civilizations; but each era establishes its own customs: whether private or public, everywhere and at...

This documentary chronicles the life of Jack Herer and his struggle for awareness and enlightenment of cannabis sativa, a.k.a. marijuana or hemp. His...

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

Follow filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers as she creates an intimate portrait of her community and the impacts of the substance use and...

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

Dr. David Suzuki explains how antibiotics have been over prescribed for decades and it has led to the fact that now there are bacterial infections...

About Vipeholmsanstalten in Lund, Sweden, and the experiments that during the 40s and 50s were carried out on mentally and physically handicapped...

Four young Americans who've each suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury emerge from their comas at a New Jersey medical facility. Their eyes may be open,...