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...

Employing methods of direct cinema–observation, limited stylization, and non-intervention–this stark look into the State Prison for the...

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...

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

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

The Wait to Nowhere: When a Crisis Goes Untreated reveals an unspeakable reality: children living in the ER for days, weeks and even months at a...

Narrator and director Michael Schaap's confessional style and general goofiness bring levity to an awkward topic: "erectile dysfunction" and the...

The Hugo's Brain is a French documentary-drama about autism. The documentary crosses authentic autistic stories with a fiction story about the life...

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

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

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

After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the lives of the doctors at Ohmatdyt changed forever. Yet they continue to save young patients and, with...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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