Medical Documentary Movies

One man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet...

FRONTLINE spent months on the ground in West Africa, tracing the Ebola outbreak’s path through Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in 2014 and...

A stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and...

Caroline Darian, Gisèle Pelicot's daughter, looks back on the tragedy that shook her family: for ten years, her father drugged her mother to...

Laser’s hallucinatory investigative report explores Paris’s Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, widely considered the...

This is the story of death and survival, exclusion and hope told by those who lived through it. 40 years ago an HIV infection seemed like a death...

An exploration of how the once taboo art form has become socially acceptable.

Through the youthful portraits of some of the most terrible dictators of the 20th and 21st centuries, this documentary examines the origins of...

The daily life of the volunteers of the Compañeros de Batalla foundation, dedicated to providing support and hope to the children fighting...

Set to readings of Thomas Mann's 'The Magic Mountain', a collage of medical, art and found footage, exploring various medical cases, including...

Coffee is the second most important commodity in the world after oil. The drink has a long history and what's more, its effect seems to be...

A journey through six different countries and characters into a world where chemistry is the ultimate response to human pursuits of well-being.

More and more doctors and surgeons are using hypnosis as a supplement to anesthesia during surgery. Hypnosis is also gaining increasing recognition...

More and more prominent people are publicly admitting to being affected by dyslexia. Hardly any other aspect of learning at school has been...

Psychiatric Nursing: The Nurse-Patient Relationship is a 1958 American documentary film directed by Lee R. Bobker. It was nominated for an Academy...

Who are the people behind the international anti-Covid-vaccine movement and why are they doing it? This journey inside the astonishing world of the...

This report was broadcast on ARD in 1993. In 43 minutes, the development of psychiatry "in the third year after reunification" is shown using two...

Faced with a traumatic injury that renders you permanently disabled; how would you reinvent yourself? Full Circle tells the story of Trevor Kennison...