The Best of Men (2012)
• August 16th, 2012 • 1h 30min
Drama, History
Overview
Ludwig Guttmann, a renowned German neurosurgeon who fled Nazi Germany in the early days of WWII, takes a position at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, England in 1944 and begins to transform the lives of his patients, paralyzed soldiers that have been written-off and who are facing death from neglect. A breakthrough comes when Dr. Guttmann introduces sport into their rehabilitation, a breakthrough that leads to the founding of the Paralympic Games.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Medicine Man
Released on: 1992-02-07
Adventure, Drama, Romance
An eccentric scientist in the Amazon jungle rejects his research assistant for being a woman, but as...
Rock Hudson
Released on: 1990-01-08
Drama, TV Movie
Biography of actor Rock Hudson focuses on his struggle with his homosexuality. Based on the book by ...
Verdi
Released on: 1982-01-01
Drama, History, Music
This 1982 biographical television miniseries, as seen on PBS's Great Performances, dramatizes the li...
When I'm a Moth
Released on: 2019-04-12
Drama
An "un-biopic" of the young Hilary Rodham set in 1969, during the unverifiable weeks her autobiograp...
The Giant
Released on: 2017-10-05
Drama, History
Having fought in the First Carlist War, Martin returns to his family farm in Gipuzkoa only to find t...
In the Name of the Father
Released on: 1993-12-12
Drama
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub tha...
Il Divo
Released on: 2008-05-28
Drama
Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous wit...
Against the Ropes
Released on: 2004-02-20
Romance, Drama
A fictional story inspired by North America's most famous female boxing promoter, Jackie Kallen. Her...
Che: Part Two
Released on: 2008-12-12
Drama, History, War
After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerg...
Che: Part One
Released on: 2008-09-05
Drama, History, War
The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore ...
Amelia
Released on: 2009-10-22
Adventure, Drama, History
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the...
Yoshiko & Yuriko
Released on: 2011-09-07
Drama
Based on a true story, Yoshiko and Yuriko relates the journey and great love affair of Yoshiko, who ...
Lakshmi's NTR
Released on: 2019-03-29
Drama
The life of iconic politician Nandamuri Taraka Ramarao (NTR) after meeting Lakshmi Parvathi, his sec...
Champions
Released on: 2014-01-23
Drama
Five real-life stories of Olympic athletes of Russia. Five stories which intertwined love, betrayal,...
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
Released on: 2017-10-13
Drama, Romance
The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped inv...
Ludwig 1881
Released on: 1993-08-11
Drama, History
In 1881 Ludwig of Bavaria goes on a cruise on a Swiss lake. He takes with him a famous actor, Josef ...
Faustina: Love and Mercy
Released on: 2019-03-29
Drama, Documentary
Docudrama tracing the life of Saint Faustina Kowalska, whose visions of Jesus Christ inspired the Ro...
Vice
Released on: 2018-12-25
Comedy, Drama
George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in t...