Tuberculosis Movies
- 1940
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet6.31940HD
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
- 2017
Bending the Arc
Bending the Arc8.72017HD
About the extraordinary doctors and activists—including Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia Dahl—whose work 30 years ago to save lives...
- 1986
Year of Enlightment
Year of Enlightment6.11986HD
April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for...
- 2008
The Necessities of Life
The Necessities of Life7.32008HD
In 1952, an Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home and family to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted,...
- 1973
A Brief Vacation
A Brief Vacation5.81973HD
Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman...
- 1936
Three Godfathers
Three Godfathers6.91936HD
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching...
- 2000
The Sea
The Sea6.12000HD
Childhood friends reunite later in life in Spanish tuberculosis sanitorium. Pressures of death all around combine with dark secrets of their past.
- 1980
Ohrožené město
Ohrožené město01980HD
- 2005
La traviata
La traviata7.92005HD
Violetta, a courtesan much wooed by Parisian society, organizes a grand party that is attended, amongst others, by the young Alfredo Germont. He...
- 2015
Anton Tchekhov 1890
Anton Tchekhov 18905.82015HD
Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote short stories for newspapers to sign Antosha...
- 1949
Orpopojan valssi
Orpopojan valssi01949HD
A biographical film about Finnish singer J. Alfred Tanner and his path through a failed career as a construction master to become a highly successful...
- 1914
The Escape
The Escape01914HD
A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partners. The film is now considered to be a lost film.
- 1983
The Camelia Boy
The Camelia Boy01983HD
An autobiographical film about Eric M. Nilsson's experiences of Swedish health care and the limits of polite society.
- 1954
Floradas na Serra
Floradas na Serra7.21954HD
Man and woman fall in love while in treatment for TB, in the beautiful town of Campos do Jordão.
- 1920
Dinty
Dinty5.21920HD
Dinty is a newsboy whose fight to care for his ailing mother leads him into conflicts with the other boys on the street and then with drug smugglers...
- 1923
The Nth Commandment
The Nth Commandment51923HD
A department store clerk decides to marry a withdrawing colleague with tuberculosis, over another dashing, ambitious suitor, leads to a life of...
- 2015
The Forgotten Plague
The Forgotten Plague6.52015HD
Tuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost two centuries. While it shaped medical pursuits,...
- 1993
Bread & Roses
Bread & Roses81993HD
Based upon the life of activist and trade unionist (and later MP) Sonja Davies. The film covers her life up to 1956, when, at age 33, she was...
- 1910
Thou Shalt Not
Thou Shalt Not01910HD
Laura has already accepted an engagement ring from Edgar when he discovers that he has tuberculosis. Persuaded by the doctor that he risks infecting...
- 1912
Hope - A Red Cross Seal Story
Hope - A Red Cross Seal Story4.51912HD
An elderly bank clerk declines to donate money to a tuberculosis fund, but soon his daughter comes down with the disease.