Movies: Tuberculosis

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The story revolves around the life of Mi, a free-spirited young woman in the very conservative 1940's Burmese society, and her many lovers. She drinks. She smokes. She thinks you're a joke. She's also traumatized, insecure, and very tired in life. S...

An elderly bank clerk declines to donate money to a tuberculosis fund, but soon his daughter comes down with the disease....

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From 1910-1972, Arkansas State law mandated that all victims of Tuberculosis (TB) be isolated in the State Sanatorium in Booneville, Arkansas. Some of them returned home free of their symptoms from Sanatorium Hill. Others died there, either of the di...

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Tuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost two centuries. While it shaped medical pursuits, social habits, economic development and public policy, TB and its impact are poorly understood....

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...

The tuberculosis sanatorium was both heaven and hell within the same walls. The story of the epidemic includes death, shame and isolation as well as sanatorium romances, fun and survival stories. The film takes the viewer on a vivid journey into the ...

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...

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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...

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

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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...

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...

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