Medicine in the world's archives
49–96 of 2,166 films, free to watch, from the world's open archives.
Where these films come from, and who sees what
Every film here plays from the archive that keeps it: the Internet Archive, Wikimedia Commons, the NASA Image and Video Library, the Library of Congress and Open Images (the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision). Nothing is copied to this site. Each film's page names its archive, links to its page there, and states its licence or status as the archive does.
Archive films carry no age ratings, so each is placed from the collections it sits in and the subjects the archive gives it, cautiously. Nothing is left out for being sexual: sexual content and nudity are for adults, placed by what the archive files a film as, never by a word of its title alone (The Naked City is a police film). A film filed as pornography is listed for adults without its picture and plays nowhere yet, as the law where it would play asks for a proof of age this site does not have. A sexual depiction of a child, drawn ones too, is listed nowhere.
| Little Ones | Films for young children by name: nursery rhymes, lullabies, preschool. |
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| Kids | Cartoons and animation, children's and family films, and educational films, unless they deal with war, propaganda, crime, horror or drugs, or carry racial caricature. |
| Tweens | Documentaries, science, nature and space, classic comedies, newsreels, commercials and lectures. |
| Teens | Everything else, including anything we cannot tell about; war, crime, horror and westerns go no lower. |
| Adult | Sexual content, pornography, nudity and nudism, striptease, sexual themes (such as the old "sex hygiene" films), gore, surgery, slaughter, beheadings, atrocity footage. |
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Doogie Howser, M.D. - Season 3 of 4 - XviD AVI
Doogie Howser, M.D. - Season 3 of 4 - XviD AVI Video Size: 628x480 Doogie Howser, M.D. is an American medical drama that ran for four seasons on ABC from…
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Lincoln Hospital
Documentary film exploring the takeover of the Lincoln Hospital community mental health program by its workers in the South Bronx, New York.
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Doogie Howser, M.D. - Season 4 of 4 - XviD AVI
Doogie Howser, M.D. - Season 4 of 4 - XviD AVI Video Size: 628x480 Doogie Howser, M.D. is an American medical drama that ran for four seasons on ABC from…
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You Are the Switchman
Be on the lookout for the warning signals of cancer.
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Madness and Medicine
Madness and Medicine Reel 2 Reel 1 available here A critical look at mental institutions and their diverse treatment programs which help some patients but…
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The Hospital
Follows a young girl's hospital experience from admittance to recovery, introducing the various hospital staff members along the way.
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Live and Learn
Social guidance film warning children about the dangers of doing without thinking. Includes a number of dramatized vignettes of children getting into…
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N/um tchai: the ceremonial dance of the!Kung Bushmen.
Photography and narration, John K. Marshall; filmed on a 1957 expedition sponsored by Peabody Museum, Harvard University and the Smithsonian Institution With…
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1960s PHYSICAL BREAST EXAM PHYSICIAN TRAINING FILM BREAST CANCER DETECTION 60554
This incomplete color film with opening and closing titles missing offers an educational look at breast exam procedures in a doctor’s office, as well as…
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The Eyes and Their Care (An Introduction)
"Examines the eye in terms of structure, functions, disorders, and hygiene. Reveals, with animated drawings, the various parts of the eye and explains the…
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Cancer
On cancer, its symptoms, treatments, and the importance of getting regular screenings.
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The Littlest Puppy Grows Up
Instructional film on the care and rearing of a puppy at home. Stresses the care feeding, and early training of a young puppy from the time it is a few days…
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Split brain.
Demonstrates and explains experiments performed by the California Institute of Technology utilizing animals and humans in which the two cerebral hemispheres…
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Madness and Medicine
Madness and Medicine Reel 1 Reel 2 available here A critical look at mental institutions and their diverse treatment programs which help some patients but…
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The Big Picture #516 The Army Nurse Story
"The original release sheet reads: Being an Army nurse is being something very special. For thirty minutes THE BIG PICTURE explores the fascinating and varied…
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Cloud in the Sky
Content warning: This film begins and ends with white people speaking in a patronizing, paternalistic, and racist manner about Latinx people. A public health…
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[Miscellaneous Outtakes]
Compilation reel with outtakes from a number sources, many of which are unknown. Includes footage for a sponsored film called "Our Side of the Story"; outtake…
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Little Brothers and Sisters: A Film Lesson in Health and Hygiene
Educational film about how to care for a baby, including how to bathe, dress, feed, prevent rickets, and monitor growth. Begins with a classroom scene where…
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This year, next year, sometime
"Made with the cooperation of the Marlborough Day Hospital, St. John's Wood, London." Date is production date Summary Describes the work of Dr Joshua Bierer,…
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The Story of Cholera
A short animated film produced by the Global Health Media Project (http://globalhealthmedia.org) in collaboration with Yoni Goodman (http://yonigoodman.com).…
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BBC Casualty Series 1 Episode 1 ‘Gas’
The very first episode of television medical drama Casualty which aired on 6th September 1986 at 7:50 pm on BBC1.
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MIT7.013S05
The MIT Biology Department core courses, 7.012, 7.013, and 7.014, all cover the same core material, which includes the fundamental principles of biochemistry,…
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''Four Star Playhouse'' - With All My Heart
An episode of popular 1950s anthology series "Four Star Playhouse". This episode stars Ida Lupino, Walter Coy and Noreen Nash, and was originally broadcast on…
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The Day The Universe Changed: 7 - The Social Impacts of New Medical Knowledge
VHS Written and presented by James Burke; produced by the BBC and RKO Pictures Traces contemporary society's recognition of the value of statistics to…
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[Home movie and industrial outtakes: 098669: Upjohn Company research]
Contains graphic sequences of laboratory experimentation on live animals: chickens, rabbits, rats, horses, dog. Majority of the reel is raw footage filmed in…
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[Home movie: 098948: Michigan scenes late 1960s]
Home movie scenes of Michigan buildings, roads, a gas station under construction, and the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King filmed off television. Also…
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So you want to be a doctor?
This program follows seven aspiring doctors through four years of medical school, showing what it takes to become a doctor. It looks at the first examination,…
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Crisis at General Hospital
This documentary investigates the progressively higher costs of medical care and the moral and economic dilemma facing public health officials as a growing…
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Facial Changes
An educational film designed for dental practitioners portraying changes in facial shape and structure due to the wearing of dentures.
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MIT 6.S897 Machine Learning for Healthcare, Spring 2019
Instructors: David Sontag, Peter Szolovits View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/6-S897S19 YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl…
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Computers & Medicine
Doctors are turning to computers for medical research, diagnosis and clinic management. Guests: Gary Kildall, Digital Research; Dr. Ben Honigman, U of…
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Emergency First Aid: Part 2 - Bandaging Wounds And Burns
World War II-era instructional film on how to clean, bandage, and treat wounds and burns. Includes demonstrations of how to tie a bandage around various parts…
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Breast Cancer
Producer, Lucille Clark Demonstrates techniques for breast self-examination and describes the precise symptoms of breast cancer
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" VIETNAM WAR RAW FOOTAGE 1967 " TAN TRU MEKONG DELTA U.S. ARMY HOSPITAL CORPS 83454
Shot by an unknown U.S. Army cameraman named Staal, this color film is raw footage of American troops filmed during the Vietnam War in 1967. At least some of…
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Protecting Nurses' Welfare: A Chronicle of Achievement
Film about the advocacy work being done by the American Nurses' Association to ensure fair working conditions for nurses across the country.
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Can We Make a Better Doctor?
In this first part of a 10-year series chronicling the progress of six students as they advance from Harvard Medical School training to professional practice,…
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The Sleeping City (restored, colorized) (1950, film-noir, imdb score: 6.8)
The Sleeping City is a 1950 American film noir crime film in semidocumentary style that was set in and filmed at New York's Bellevue Hospital . Directed by…
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Nobody Ever Died of Old Age (1975)
Uses both serious and humorous character studies to show what it is like to grow old in the United States in the 1970s. Dramatizes the lives of a number of…
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What's Happened To Sugar?
Documents wide-ranging impacts of sugar shortage during and after World War II. Documents production of sugar from beet and cane sources, nationwide within…
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Hidden San Francisco Stop D 16 Los Siete De La Raza
In February 2020, Pluto Press published Hidden San Francisco: The Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories by Chris Carlsson. This…
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Rebuilding Indian Country 1933
Reel 1, maps show the origin and history of the American Indian. Modern Indians work in Wisconsin's lumber industry, keep watch for forest fires, and clear…
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Pavement Pounding
Educational film explaining foot anatomy, discussing ambulation and the stresses on feet of today produced by walking on pavement, compared to premodern use…
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Diary Of A Sergeant (1945)
This film on the rehabilitation of an injured soldier who lost his hands in action stars Harold Russell, the Academy Award-winning lead actor in "Best Years…
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Silent Night, Bloody Night (WideScreen/Uncut)
Original theatrical release version of this gory 70s horror classic featuring a number of well known screen actors in the cast. 16:9 enhanced widescreen.…
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Emergency First Aid: Part 3 - Fractures
First aid instructional film demonstrating how to apply splints to fractures at common locations in the body in emergency situations. Title and synopsis in…
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The Children's Doctor
A visit to a hospital. This is an episode of a 5-minute TV series from the late-1960s. (I uploaded an episode of "Funny You Should Ask" which was followed by…
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Doogie Howser, M.D. - Interviews - XviD AVI
Doogie Howser, M.D. - Interviews - XviD AVI Video Size: 626x480 and 640x480 Doogie Howser, M.D. is an American medical drama that ran for four seasons on ABC…
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Moment of Service
Details the service efforts of the Red Cross, including infant care classes, blood draws from adult subjects, blood transfusions, first aid classes for…