NLM Titles in MedFilm – Medicine on Screen

The MedFilm platform offers a database of hundreds of health and medical films with accompanying analyses. Exploring the worldwide history of health, it operates as a nonprofit, academic, interdisciplinary, and international research/teaching project.

MedFilm provides analysis of the following films from the National Library of Medicine’s historical audiovisual collections. Some of these films are also highlighted here in Medicine on Screen.

Created in the form of an adapted MediaWiki, the MedFilm database has been developed in collaboration with the Direction du Numérique at the University of Strasbourg.

Another to Conquer

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Battling Brucellosis

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Brush for Beauty

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Cloud in the Sky

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Dance, Little Children

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Easy to Get

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The Eternal Fight

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Let My People Live

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Man Alive!

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The N.P. Patient

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Rodney

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Use Your Head

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The Public Health Film Goes to War

Public health and war have long been close companions, and maybe strange bedfellows.The synergistic relationship between health professionals and the military especially flourished during the most massive conflict of all: World War II. Many of the techniques developed in Hollywood entertainment films over the previous decade came to be used to build audience support and participation for public health programs and mobilizations. The most elaborate were those produced by the United States Armed Forces.

Dos Caminos (ca. 1974)

This short dramatic film, made in El Salvador, addresses problems caused by ignorance about human sexuality and myths and misunderstandings about conception and pregnancy. Two village girls travel to the capital for schooling. One is studious and careful and returns to her village to work in the health clinic. The other becomes enchanted with the city's social life, falls for a man, and finds herself pregnant before she is ready. Two different roads lead to very different outcomes.

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