Movies: Tuberculosis

A precious animated short from the pioneer of Italian animation Liberio Pensuti, commissioned by the Italian National Fascist Federation against Tuberculosis (Federazione Italiana Nazionale fascista per la lotta contro la tubercolosi), part of a mass...

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Set in early 1980s, Xishan tuberculosis hospital. Three female patients lives in ward 16. A new one moves in and makes others think about their lives....

Laura has already accepted an engagement ring from Edgar when he discovers that he has tuberculosis. Persuaded by the doctor that he risks infecting his unborn children, he calls off the engagement, but Laura will not accept that: she threatens suici...

Man and woman fall in love while in treatment for TB, in the beautiful town of Campos do Jordão....

An autobiographical film about Eric M. Nilsson's experiences of Swedish health care and the limits of polite society....

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Luigi Liberio Pensuti (Roma 1903 – Molteno 1945) was one of the fathers of Italian animation. From 1930 to 1940 he worked on a long and important national prevention campaign against the scourge of tuberculosis, realising a few films among which La t...

Dr. John Wright a poor but promising young physician is influenced by his selfish wife, who was raised in luxury, to sell his breakthrough serum to a group of shady businessmen. That decision eventually begats tragedy and ruin for them all. Ultimatel...

Medical student Antti Ahonen, who is fighting tuberculosis, finds himself in the middle of a love triangle with his friend Heikki Huhtamäki and his crush Helmi Hirvinen....

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Dedicated Dr. Jordan is increasingly concerned about the health risks suffered by workers at a local pottery factory. "In Harrison Pratt's badly ventilated and dusty pottery the doctor finds the workers easy prey to tuberculosis." The doctor can poin...

How do you find your place in an ableist world as a person with a disability? Disabled Hugo Schmidt talks to the almost 90 year old Franz-Josef Sauer, who was left with a walking impairment by a tuberculosis infection in his childhood. In the 1990s S...