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 point out consumptive workers, but the only result is that the stricken men are dismissed and replaced by fresh victims.

From 1910-1972, Arkansas State law mandated that all victims of Tuberculosis (TB) be isolated in the...

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adven...

The tuberculosis sanatorium was both heaven and hell within the same walls. The story of the epidemi...

Tuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost...

About the extraordinary doctors and activists—including Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia Dahl—...

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

How do you find your place in an ableist world as a person with a disability? Disabled Hugo Schmidt ...

Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote ...

During the Great Depression, a young boy leaves his family's Oklahoma farm to travel with his countr...

After brothers Jonathan and Crusty pass away, they reunite in Nangijala, the land of eternal spring....

Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue...

Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.

In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculos...

Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their partic...