Medical Documentary Movies

A Perilous Quest to Save the World’s Children tells the inspiring story of Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman, a man with a singular, unwavering focus...

Documentary about Medici con l'Africa CUAMM, one of Italy's foremost humanitarian NGOs to operate in Africa.

It tells the compelling story of Ali Akyüz's educational journey, which began in a village school in the Of district of Trabzon, and continued...

Segismundo Morey has spent his last few years facing the challenges imposed by Andrade’s rare disease. This medical condition, which affects...

A 1970 documentary produced by Bristol Laboratories about the administration of ketamine, and potentially the first video footage of ketamine being...

Shows masked mental patients enacting various schizophrenic symptoms as they were understood at the time. A disturbing film that raises questions...

Bodies and body parts of deceased people can be seen in this reportage. They have made themselves available for medical teaching after their death. ...

A documentary following 19-year-old Brooke Sturgis, a college student who’s life is flipped upside down after unexpectedly going into heart...

NOVA takes you inside the operating room to witness organ transplant teams transferring organs from donors to recipients. Meet families navigating...

As vacationers go on hiking trips, swim, sunbathe, fish, pick mushrooms and ski in various resorts across the Soviet Union, scientist Evgeni Chazov...

The tragic story of four children who died at Grantham Hospital in early 1991, and how doctors and police gathered the evidence to convict killer...

Injectable anti-inflammatories, anticoagulants, anti-infectives, anticancer drugs and even cotton wools are in short supply. Like many others in...

Kelly Finger-McNeela was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis her freshman year of high school. The only thing on her mind was living a "normal" life....

At just 32 years old, Nelly Shaheen has defied odds to become the world's oldest known survivor of Harlequin Ichthyosis, a painful condition which...