On Call to a Nation

On Call to a Nation

Health and Social Care | BBC | 1958 | 1'11'53''

Casting real doctors instead of actors, this film uses scripted scenarios and interviews to see the National Health Service through their eyes. The docum...

Breaking the Mould: The Story of Penicillin

Breaking the Mould: The Story of Penicillin

History | BBC Four | 2009 | 1'21'25''

History books tell us that Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, but that's not the whole story. This drama uncovers the forgo...

S12E02: Health before the NHS: A Medical Revolution | Timeshift

S12E02: Health before the NHS: A Medical Revolution | Timeshift

History | BBC Four | 2012 | 58'55''

Robert Winston explores the extraordinary transformation of the hospital from Victorian workhouse to modern c...

S12E01: Health before the NHS: The Road to Recovery | Timeshift

S12E01: Health before the NHS: The Road to Recovery | Timeshift

History | BBC Four | 2012 | 58'59''

The shocking story of health before the NHS. In the early 20th century, getting treated if you were ill was a...

Jenner’s Marvellous Medicine | A History of the World

Jenner’s Marvellous Medicine | A History of the World

History | BBC One | 2010 | 29'05''

Professor Mark Horton tells the epic story of the world's greatest medical discovery. Edward Jenner's vaccination...

05: End of an Era | The Courage to Fail

05: End of an Era | The Courage to Fail

History | BBC Two | 1987 | 48'59''

Christiaan Barnard became the most famous surgeon in the world by successfully transplanting a human heart. Yet so disastrous were th...

04: A Gift of Life | The Courage to Fail

04: A Gift of Life | The Courage to Fail

History | BBC Two | 1987 | 51'20''

Richard Herrick, a young man dying of kidney disease, is about to make medical history. Surgeons will save his life by transplanting...

03: Doers Not Thinkers | The Courage to Fail

03: Doers Not Thinkers | The Courage to Fail

History | BBC Two | 1987 | 47'21''

By the early 1970s, surgeons were riding the crest of a wave. But controversy and uncertainty surrounded one of the commonest op...

02: Into the Heart | The Courage to Fail

02: Into the Heart | The Courage to Fail

History | BBC Two | 1987 | 50'34''

Crippled children, blue and breathless with congenital heart disease, were sent home to die. Operating on the inside of the heart wa...

03: Brave New World | Pandemic 2020

03: Brave New World | Pandemic 2020

Disease and pandemics | BBC Two | 2021 | 59'36''

From the Amazon to churches in the US and the slums of Delhi, reason and science battle conspiracy and denial.

Medicine Through Time (1998): 04: Medicine and War | History File

Medicine Through Time (1998): 04: Medicine and War | History File

History | BBC Two | 1998 | 24'04''

This prog looks at the relationship between medicine and war. Does war help or hinder medicine? Surviving r...

The NHS: A Difficult Beginning

The NHS: A Difficult Beginning

History | BBC Two | 2008 | 1'17'50''

The story of the birth of the NHS, revealing how close its opponents came to defeating it and why the some of the fiercest opposition came fro...

S08E08: Children Of The Iron Lung | Secret History

S08E08: Children Of The Iron Lung | Secret History

History | Channel 4 | 2000 | 49'50''

For the greater part of the twentieth century, polio spread panic throughout the Western world and caused paralysis in its...

19: 1954: Living Longer | People’s Century

19: 1954: Living Longer | People’s Century

History | BBC Two | 1997 | 52'29''

Medical advances allow people to live longer and healthier lives. Penicillin is developed in time to save lives during the S...
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