Childhood friends Mary Lee and Vera receive two different versions of the 'birds and the bees' from their mothers. Mary Lee gets the facts, while Vera gets a prudish fairytale version. Their lives separate after graduation, Mary Lee becomes a nurse who falls in proper love with a Doctor, whereas Vera follows her mother's advice and seeks to marry a rich man, but falls for the unlawful and syphilitic charms of a wealthy cad. Mary Lee and her Doctor rescue Vera and help her get proper care after a series of revelations showing actual patients of the loathsome disease. Finally, Mary Lee and her new husband volunteer to help our boys fighting the Huns in France.
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...
This educational film combines medical information and story to teach the viewers about the preventi...
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and d...
Helen Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's ...
Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's...
A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war...
A young beauty queen travels to New York to further her modelling career, but contracts syphilis aft...
Tuula, Mirri and Aino are roommates at a nurse college. At her hospital internship, Aino works with ...
A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partn...
Toni van Eyck became known with her leading role in this early "Aufklärungsfilm" (education film) Ge...
A groom-to-be contracts syphilis and wrestles with the consequences of his diagnosis.
Jesús, a middle-aged man, finds out that he suffers from a venereal disease. Feeling guilty, he aban...
An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syph...
Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's...
A propagandistic melodrama recounting the dangers and horrors of venereal disease.
A woman learns that her husband has been unfaithful and that she has acquired a venereal disease. Th...
In New York City, a relationship is threatened when a young man discovers he's caught syphilis from ...
A 1941 film encouraging people to seek treatment if they had, or might have had, syphilis.
A tyrannical landowner terrorizes his wife and seduces the daughter of one of his employees.