Medicine Movies

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

How did psychedelics, not so long ago cast into the wilderness by the medical community, so quickly return to one of America’s most prestigious...

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

Psychotropic drugs. It’s the story of big money-drugs that fuel a $330 billion psychiatric industry, without a single cure. The cost in human...

John Pilger unearths the hidden agenda behind the NHS crisis.

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

A good-hearted man, betrayed by his wife and friends, fakes his death and takes up a new identity, as a nameless, wandering drunkard.

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

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...

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...

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

At a time when our eyes are tiring ever faster, we zoom in on new techniques to combat visual diseases and deficiencies.

Errol Morris' "Demon in the Freezer" is a short 17-minute documentary about the stockpiles of the smallpox virus that remain stored for research...

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

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

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

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

In this "fake documentary", a doctor returns to Brazil after his studies in Paris. Setting out to practice Medicine, he becomes an indigenous messiah...