Pasteur et Koch : Un duel de géants dans la guerre des microbes

A Life Without Pain

March 2005 •English

The film explores the daily lives of three children with Congenital insensitivity to pain, a rare genetic disorder shared by just a hundred people in the world. Three-year-old Gabby from Minnesota, 7-year-old Miriam from Norway and 10-year-old Jamilah from Germany have to be carefully guarded by their parents so they don't suffer serious, life-altering injuries.

Sicko

May 2007 •English

A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make profit even if it means losing people’s lives. "The more people you deny health insurance the more money we make" is the business model for health care providers in America.

Aiguille sous roche

February 2021 •French

In this documentary, comedian Louis T explores the multiple facets of vaccination in Quebec (Canada). In a biting style, he questions the reasons for and consequences of the population's growing mistrust.

Triste Trópico

January 1974 •Portuguese

In this "fake documentary", a doctor returns to Brazil after his studies in Paris. Setting out to practice Medicine, he becomes an indigenous messiah and, in time, a cannibal.

Depression: Out of the Shadows

May 2008 •English

This PBS documentary explores depression, a debilitating disease that affects millions of Americans. Touching the lives of people from diverse backgrounds, depression still carries a stigma that causes some sufferers to go without treatment. Real people with depression talk about their experiences, and scientists offer commentary to shed light on the disease, including its diagnosis, treatment and current research.

Euthanasie, la mort sur ordonnance

November 2021 •French

Impfen – Pro und Contra

February 2017 •German

Do we want to have our child vaccinated? If yes, when and against which diseases? Parents are faced with these questions soon after the birth of their child. In 2016, three renowned pediatricians and adolescents provided information about the benefits of individual vaccinations as well as side effects and risks: Georg Soldner, Dr. Martin Hirte and Dr. Steffen Rabe.

Die Biografie des Bösen

September 2020 •German

Coma

July 2007 •English

Four young Americans who've each suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury emerge from their comas at a New Jersey medical facility. Their eyes may be open, but now the real challenge for each of the patients, their families, their doctors and their therapists begins. Brain healing isn't predictable, we're told, and certainly is not guaranteed. So with each 'major' step forward that is observed (opening one's eyes, bending a thumb upon command, vocalizing a word, answering a question correctly) comes a sense of jubilant relief and hope from the families of these patients, but as we soon see, the more a patient progresses, the more difficult things can be for all involved. Moments of faith & hope contrast with disappointments & frustrations, moments of confidence with moments of doubt. It's difficult to watch, and unimaginable to have to ever live through.

Vaccination

May 2021 •English

A glimpse into the routine of a busy Covid vaccination service in the north of England.

The pink indian against the invisible beast: Noel Nutels' battle

March 2020 •Portuguese

Public health physician Noel Nutels' ideas and the footage he made of Brazilian indigenous peoples between 1940 and 1970 come together to denounce the historic massacre against native communities.

If We Knew

Invalid date •Dutch

If We Knew is a documentary about paediatricians in an intensive-care unit for newborns. A film about the compassion needed to heal the sick and occasionally needed to hasten the death of a child.

Malades sans ordonnances

November 2021 •French

Hard to Believe

November 2016 •English

A documentary that examines the issue of forced live organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience, and the response - or lack of it - around the world. It's happened before: governments killing their own citizens for their political or spiritual beliefs. But it’s never happened like this. It’s happened so often that the world doesn’t always pay attention.

The Shaman's Apprentice

May 2001 •English

Scientist Mark Plotkin races against time to save the ancient healing knowledge of Indian tribes from extinction.

The Announcement

December 2019 •French

How do you learn to talk about death when you are a future doctor? Mathilde and Fabian will be entering a residency next year. I'm looking at the gestural dialogue and language strategies that take place during the delicate moment of a "announcement" consultation. I am trying to understand how words, although they do not directly cure the disease, sometimes help to remove the fear it engenders.

Perfecting the Art of Longing

October 2021 •English

Cut off from his loved ones due to the strict COVID-19 lockdown at the long-term care facility where he lives, a quadriplegic rabbi is filmed by his daughter while reflecting on love, mortality and longing.

AstraZeneca: A Vaccine for the World?

February 2022 •English

BBC medical editor Fergus Walsh examines the extraordinary ambition behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid jab. Intended as a vaccine for the world, did politics get in its way?

Hold Out

April 2022 •French

End of a trilogy started with Hold up and continued with Hold On, Hold out questions the official narrative about the COVID-19 pandemic.

Unrest

October 2017 •English

When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head." Determined to live, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story—and four other families' stories—fighting a disease medicine forgot.