Disease Movies

Upon learning that Victoria's sister Lana is infected with a deadly case of COVID-19, Victoria promises Lana she will do everything she can to save...

Follows the lives of three sisters affected by one having ALS, finding a cure, and the foundation formed to combat the disease, Project ALS.

The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the tasks involved in re-creating the means of...

A fragile mother has a hard time keeping her life together while raising her teenage daughter and 13-year-old sun who is diagnosed with XP, a rare...

A mother discovers that her son has a disability that causes her breast milk to intoxicate him. But the discovery comes too late to prevent the loss...

A woman fleeing a dystopian city forms a connection with someone she cannot touch.

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...

A respected documentary maker hears from a friend that his long term depression has been helped after watching a video entitled "Food matters" and...

An emotional film about how we respond to tragedy.

The sea around Minamata was heavily polluted with mercury during the 1950s and 1960s from the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory. This highly...

Laura has already accepted an engagement ring from Edgar when he discovers that he has tuberculosis. Persuaded by the doctor that he risks infecting...

A painter goes on an exile after finding out he has Guillain Barre Syndrome, a rare disorder that prevents him from painting.

The black death had devastating effects in centuries past, but what actually caused it and how many lives did it take? The world has not seen a...

A 1-minute cart ride through the mental shopping mall of attention deficit disorder. Inspired by found sound of a shopper’s vlog, hand-drawn...

Eating, 2nd Edition: Introducing The RAVE Diet presents graphic evidence of how animal foods are not meant for human consumption, and how the...

A teen is locked in a room with a monitor lizard

This film chronicles the health and social problems that African albinos face and details the fight waged on their behalf by advocacy groups in Spain.

Cédric is a child like millions of others. The only difference is that the little boy is seriously ill and must spend six months in a...

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is the human version of mad cow disease and has been described as a "ticking time bomb" in Britain. This...