Medical Documentary Movies

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

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...

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

"Octopus Heart" is a poignant documentary examining the link between emotional trauma and Takotsubo Syndrome. Following Anastazija Zivanovic's life...

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

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

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

Fasciae, hidden connective tissues, are largely unstudied parts of our anatomy. What role do they play in the organism? And could a better...

Weaving together powerful interviews with survivors, experts, and well known celebrities, this advocates for upscaling skin cancer prevention...

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

The daughters of Title IX discover that pervasive gender-based stereotypes and discrimination persist within the high stakes professional world of...

Six months after a tsunami hit South Asia on December 26, 2004, Muslim-American and Sri Lankan-born Dr. M. Rahmi Mowjood led a team of American...

This is the movie we wish we didn’t have to make. But this is a movie everyone needs to see. For the first time ever, hear the stories of covid...

Doctors and twins Chris and Xand van Tulleken's experiences through the Covid-19 pandemic have far more personal consequences than either could have...

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....

During a canoe trip, neurologist Magnus Heier suffers from sudden amnesia: for eight hours, he records nothing. Everything he does is immediately...

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...

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