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- DirectorStanley KramerStarsSpencer TracyFredric MarchGene KellyBased on a real-life case in 1925; two great lawyers argue the case for, and against, a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial
- DirectorRoger SpottiswoodeStarsMatthew ModineAlan AldaPatrick BauchauThe story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic, and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_the_Band_Played_On
- DirectorJon AmielStarsPaul BettanyJennifer ConnellyIan KellyTorn between faith and science, and suffering hallucinations, English naturalist Charles Darwin struggles to complete 'On the Origin of Species' and maintain his relationship with his wife.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsPaul MuniJosephine HutchinsonAnita LouiseThe biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur
- DirectorMick JacksonStarsJeff GoldblumTim Pigott-SmithAlan HowardWatson and Crick race to find the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling, Maurice Wilkins, or Rosalind Franklin can find the key to unlocking the secret.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crick - DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsEdward G. RobinsonRuth GordonOtto KrugerTrue story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ehrlich
- DirectorDavid LebrunStarsMarian SeldesCorey BurtonRichard DysartThe animated documentary Proteus explores the nineteenth century's engagement with the undersea world through science, technology, painting, poetry and myth. The central figure of the film is biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel, who found in the depths of the sea an ecstatic and visionary fusion of science and art.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Haeckel
- DirectorGeorge MillerStarsNick NolteSusan SarandonPeter UstinovLorenzo Odone, a Virginia 5-year-old, develops a degenerative nerve disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his parents decide to immerse themselves in research and tackle the problem themselves.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_and_Michaela_Odone
- DirectorMichael AptedStarsSigourney WeaverBryan BrownJulie HarrisThe story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dian_Fossey
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsCliff McMullenYasiin BeyLuray CooperA dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivien_Thomas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Blalock - DirectorPenny MarshallStarsRobert De NiroRobin WilliamsJulie KavnerThe victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Sacks
- DirectorAndré De TothStarsTivadar UrayJuliska LigetiGyula GózonSupposedly the 1st Hungarian biopic: Semmelweiss disagrees with university colleagues that nothing can be done about women dying of childbirth fever, finds a remedy if doctors disinfect after dissecting corpses, lands up put in an asylum.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
- DirectorDudley NicholsStarsRosalind RussellAlexander KnoxDean JaggerAn Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Kenny
- StarsJohn SimmAnna MadeleyDavid ThrelfallThe story of Sir Alec Jeffreys' discovery of DNA fingerprinting and its first use by DCS David Baker in catching a double murderer.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Jeffreys
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Pitchfork - DirectorThomas CarterStarsCuba Gooding Jr.Kimberly EliseAunjanue Ellis-TaylorBiography of Ben Carson who grew up to be Dr. Ben Carson, a world famous neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carson
- DirectorRobert KennerStarsMichael PollanEric SchlosserRichard LobbAn unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.
- DirectorMorgan SpurlockStarsMorgan SpurlockDaryl IsaacsChemeeka WalkerWhile examining the influence of the fast food industry, Morgan Spurlock personally explores the consequences on his health of a diet of solely McDonald's food for one month.
- DirectorRichard RichStarsVictor HumphriesKevin FarrellMimi CarrThe time is 1860, and cholera is beginning to spread throughout France's chicken population. Louis Pasteur and his assistant, Emile Roux, collect samples and deduce that disease can be transmitted through air. They then draw blood from the chickens and see an unidentified germ in the specimens. While Pasteur and Roux work with the samples of blood, Pasteur has a debilitating stroke. From his bed, he expresses his determination to live, and continues to work with Roux by writing him notes. He tells Roux to inject the chickens with the contaminated blood. The chickens die. When Pasteur finally comes back to the laboratory, they discover the blood has altered from time. When they inject this blood into the chickens again, the cholera germs are killed.They have created a vaccination for the chickens. Meanwhile, sheep begin to die from anthrax. Even though other scientists mock Pasteur's findings, they agree to let him experiment on 25 sheep. They are all surprised to see the vaccine work. Pasteur is determined for vaccinations to work on people. He and Roux continue to experiment for four years until a young boy, Joseph Meister, contracts rabies from a wolf and his father brings him to Pasteur. Although hesitant to experiment on a human. Pasteur agrees to give him the shot. After five long days of waiting and another shot, Joseph Meister recovers and the world's first human vaccination is introduced.
- StarsFrank GillardArthur LoweJames GroutDramatised documentary series charting the development of vaccines by Pasteur, Koch and others in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- DirectorJack CoufferStarsNicholas ClaySusan MacreadyIan RichardsonVictorian naturalist Charles Darwin sails on the HMS Beagle and returns with a shocking theory of evolution.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsBert SevenhuijsenJacques BonnafféBarbara M. MessnerA revisionist biopic on Charles Darwin, illustrated via 18 tableaux covering details from Darwin's birth, his defining voyage on the HMS Beagle, the publication of his seminal Theory of Evolution and his ultimate death and consequent burial at Westminster Abbey.
- DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsMatt DamonKate WinsletJude LawHealthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.FICTION
- DirectorRoger YoungStarsRon HowardArt CarneyTarah NutterA farmer's herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill, so he bucks the state agricultural establishment as he pursues the politically explosive investigation of how his farm, family, and friends came to be poisoned.ABOUT CATTLE FEED CONTAMINATION
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsJames OlsonArthur HillDavid WayneTop scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what killed the citizens of a small town and how the deadly contagion can be stopped.FICTION BUT GREAT
- DirectorDavis GuggenheimStarsAl GoreBilly WestGeorge BushFilmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.GLOBAL WARMING DOCUMENTARY
- StarsMalcolm StoddardAndrew BurtPeter SettelenThe series encompasses Darwin's university days to the 1859 publication of his book "On the Origin of Species" and his death and is based on Darwin's own letters, diaries, and journals, especially The Voyage of the Beagle and The Autobiography of Charles Darwin.
- DirectorPeter CrawfordStarsTim PreeceTony SteedmanPatrick Allen
- DirectorRichard ElsonStarsFrank ByeJohn ElsonJames Eltringham
- DirectorDavid EsparSusan K. LewisAlastair ReidStarsRoger BrierleyAntony CarrickJane CunliffeDarwin's Dangerous Idea
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsWerner KraussHarry LangewischAnnelies ReinholdParacelsus is the story of the Renaissance era Swiss physician/alchemist/astrologer Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim.
- DirectorHans SteinhoffStarsEmil JanningsWerner KraussViktoria von BallaskoThe young country doctor Dr. Robert Koch is desperate seeking a cure for a tuberculosis epidemic costing many children in his district life.