Disease Movies

A knight returns home from the Crusades to find his village devastated by disease and his family gone. He roams the forest searching for them, until h...

A reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of the crisis.

After years of estrangement due to difficulties accepting his brother's sexuality, a man diagnosed with a terminal illness decides to reconnect. As th...

The story of Robert Flanagan, a man who was born with cystic fibrosis and told he wouldn't live past 20, who through a unique odyssey of masochism, ar...

Three young friends who are on vacation in Spain and a NASA scientist must join forces to save themselves and the rest of the world from an alien mena...

When teacher Simon arrives in a small, secluded village to take over the local school, he is surprised to discover that his predecessor has disappeare...

This is the life story of Babe Didrikson Zaharias, one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century, from her early Texas tomboy days to her Gold Meda...

In a country whose people have just been successfully persuaded of their superiority and the justification for military expansion by the fiery speeche...

Discover how the 1900 outbreak of bubonic plague set off feat and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco. A fascinating medical mystery and timely exam...

The novelist Shiga Naoya lives with his wife Haruko and their 4-year-old daughter Saeko. He is paranoid about Saeko’s health, making her wear heavy cl...

A documentary focused on infectious disease outbreaks.

A grad student breaks up with her boyfriend to focus on her thesis, not realizing something has infected him and that he's going to wreak havoc on her...

Lovers living together on a remote island but who are forced to remain physically apart after one of them contracts a virus. Their isolation is disrup...

Inside the dramatic search for a cure to ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). 17 million people around the world suffer from...

The Seven Dwarfs fight malaria.

The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf while scienti...

In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable professio...

A respected documentary maker hears from a friend that his long term depression has been helped after watching a video entitled "Food matters" and fol...

The sea around Minamata was heavily polluted with mercury during the 1950s and 1960s from the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory. This highly toxic...

In the early 1900s, as the Panama Canal is being built, a group of doctors try to discover a cure for yellow fever, a disease that is decimating the w...