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1. Take Care of Maya (2023)
TV-14 | 103 min | Documentary
As a medical team tries to understand 10-year-old Maya Kowalski's rare illness, they begin to question her parents. Suddenly, Maya is in state custody - despite a family desperate to bring their daughter home.
Director: Henry Roosevelt | Star: Maya Kowalski
Votes: 9,822
2. What Is a Woman? (2022)
95 min | Documentary
Political commentator Matt Walsh explores the changing concepts of sex and gender in the digital age, particularly the transgender rights movement, anti-transgender bigotry, and what it means to be a woman.
Director: Justin Folk | Stars: Matt Walsh, Gert Comfrey, Marci Bowers, Don Sucher
Votes: 42,206
3. Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife (2023)
TV-MA | 53 min | Documentary, Crime, History
Dr. Paolo Macchiarini is world famous for his revolutionary stem cell-infused windpipe transplants. There's just one problem: His patients keep dying.
Stars: Benita Alexander-Noel, Karl-Henrik Grinnemo, Oscar Simonson, Erica Greene
Votes: 4,700
4. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)
Unrated | 113 min | Documentary
Follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.
Director: Laura Poitras | Stars: Nan Goldin, David Velasco, Megan Kapler, Marina Berio
Votes: 7,897
5. Our Father (III) (2022)
TV-MA | 97 min | Documentary, Crime
After a woman's at-home DNA test reveals multiple half-siblings, she discovers a shocking scheme involving donor sperm and a popular fertility doctor.
Director: Lucie Jourdan | Stars: Jacoba Ballard, Julie Harmon, Matt White, Heather Woock
Votes: 14,559
6. Collective (2019)
Not Rated | 109 min | Documentary, Crime
Director Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.
Director: Alexander Nanau | Stars: Dan Alexandru Condrea, Liviu Iolu, Razvan Lutac, Mirela Neag
Votes: 13,487
7. The Century of the Self (2002)
59 min | Documentary
A documentary about the rise of psychoanalysis as a powerful means of persuasion for both governments and corporations.
Stars: Adam Curtis, Robert Reich, Ann Bernays, Alfred Pritz
Votes: 6,380
8. Every Body (2023)
R | 92 min | Documentary
Focuses on three individuals who overcame shame, secrecy, and unauthorized surgery throughout their childhoods to enjoy successful adulthoods. Choosing to ignore medical advice to conceal their bodies and coming out as who they truly were.
Director: Julie Cohen | Stars: Sean Saifa Wall, Alicia Roth Weigel, River Gallo
Votes: 854
9. The Bleeding Edge (2018)
TV-14 | 99 min | Documentary
A look at the unforeseen consequences of advanced technological devices used in the medical field.
Director: Kirby Dick | Stars: Jim Spencer, Jeanne Lenzer, Michael Carome, Angie Firmalino
Votes: 3,112
10. He Lied About Everything (2018)
Documentary
Two-hour special that investigates the perfect engagement gone wrong between Emmy award-winning journalist, Benita Alexander, and the internationally acclaimed surgeon, Dr. Paolo Macchiarini. Hosted by Benita Alexander.
Stars: Benita Alexander-Noel, Paolo Macchiarini
Votes: 127
11. King of Clones (2023)
TV-14 | 85 min | Documentary
From human cloning research to a scandalous downfall, follow the life and work of Korea's most notorious scientist, Hwang Woo-suk.
Director: Aditya Thayi | Stars: Hwang Woo-Suk, Paul Root Wolpe, Alex Tinson, Csillo
Votes: 933
12. Dokument inifrån: Experimenten (2016)
60 min | Documentary
Three-part series looking at the downfall of synthetic organ transplant surgeon Paolo Macchiarini.
Stars: Paolo Macchiarini, Matthias Corbascio, Karl-Henrik Grinnemo, Johannes Wahlström
Votes: 39
13. The Business of Birth Control (2021)
92 min | Documentary
A look at the side effects associated with taking birth control pills.
Director: Abby Epstein | Stars: Jane Alexander, Michael Alexander, Olivia Amitrano, Dianne Ammons
Votes: 49
14. No Way Back: The Reality of Gender-Affirming Care (2023)
91 min | Documentary
Six young people discuss the "gender affirming" medical care they received for gender dysphoria and how they subsequently realised this was the wrong treatment.
Director: L.E. Dawes | Stars: Michelle Alleva, David Arthur, Sasha Ayad, Laura Becker
Votes: 172
15. Human Harvest (2014)
72 min | Documentary, Crime
Nobel Peace Prize nominees David Matas and David Kilgour investigate the organ harvesting trade in China and uncover one of the world's worst crimes against humanity.
Director: Leon Lee | Stars: Ethan Gutmann, Shi-Wei Huang, Carlos Iglésias, David Kilgour
Votes: 269
16. 150 Milligrams (2016)
128 min | Biography, Drama
Dr. Irène Frachon from Brest discovers, that Mediator pills cause heart valve problems/deaths. In 2009, she starts an uphill battle against the producer and the French health authorities.
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot | Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Benoît Magimel, Charlotte Laemmel, Isabelle de Hertogh
Votes: 1,513
17. Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime (2014)
102 min | Documentary
Before the Internet. Before Social Media. Before Breaking News. The victims of Thalidomide had to rely on something even more extraordinary to fight their corner: Investigative Journalism. ... See full summary »
Directors: David Morris, Jacqui Morris | Stars: Harold Evans, Ralph Nader, Michael Sheen
Votes: 667
18. Dysphoric: Fleeing Womanhood Like a House on Fire (2021– )
152 min | Documentary
'Dysphoric' is a four-part documentary series on the rise of Gender Identity Ideology, its effects on women and girls - especially in developing countries.
Stars: Sasha Ayad, David Bell, Michael Biggs, Jennifer Bilek
Votes: 118
19. Vicky (2022)
87 min | Documentary
In 2018 on the steps of The High Court, Vicky Phelan gave a now infamous address where she exposed one of the worst women's health scandals in Irish history, the cervical cancer debacle. "... See full summary »
Director: Sasha King
Votes: 31
21. Trans - I Got Life (2021)
95 min | Documentary
We accompany a world-renowned transgender surgeon and his patients, each in a different stage of gender reassignment. A film full of feeling that unfolds the full spectrum and radicalness of this transition.
Directors: Imogen Kimmel, Doris Metz | Stars: Rikku Raimondi, Mikael Panci Pancak, Elisabeth Sophia Landsteiner, Julius Klemz
Votes: 29
22. Transkriget (2023)
Documentary
Investigating the dramatic increase in the diagnosis of gender dysphoria and 'gender affirming' care among children.
Stars: Aleksa Lundberg, Mikael Landén, Helen Joyce, Christopher Gillberg
Votes: 13
23. RTÉ Investigates: Whistleblowers Fighting to be Heard (2021 TV Movie)
40 min | Documentary, News
Star: Barry O'Kelly
24. Het transgenderprotocol (2023)
42 min | Documentary, Short
An investigation into the 'Dutch Protocol' - the scientific basis for adolescent transgender medicine - which was developed in Amsterdam and is facing increased international scrutiny
Director: Sander Rietveld | Stars: Hannah Barnes, Annelou de Vries, Mikael Landén
25.
Horizon (1964– )
Episode:
The Boy Who Was Turned Into a Girl
(2000)
52 min | Documentary
A boy whose penis was burnt off when a circumcision goes wrong is turned into a girl as an attempt to prove a theory about gender identity.
Stars: Dilly Barlow, Alvin Davies, Milton Diamond, Roger Gorski
Votes: 26
26.
Horizon (1964– )
Episode:
Complete Obsession
(2000)
Documentary
Director: Nikki Stockley | Stars: Aden Gillett, Richard Fox, Russell Reid, Robert Smith
27.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Lobotomist
(2008)
TV-14 | 55 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This program tells the gripping tale of medical intervention gone awry.
Directors: Barak Goodman, John Maggio | Stars: Campbell Scott, Lee Wilkof, Clint Jordan, Joanna Merlin
Votes: 149
28.
ITV Exposure (2011– )
Episode:
In Cold Blood
(2020)
Documentary, News
The programme features new evidence unearthed by Jason Evans, a campaigner whose father died from Hepatitis C and AIDS, including receipts for the destruction of files relating to an ... See full summary »
Director: Marcus Plowright | Star: Jason Evans
Votes: 6
29.
ITV Exposure (2011– )
Episode:
Bodies of Evidence: The Butcher Surgeon
(2022)
Documentary, News
How Birmingham surgeon Ian Paterson led patients to believe they had breast cancer and performed unnecessary surgeries on them.
Director: Alison Millar
Votes: 7
30.
7News Spotlight (2020– )
Episode:
De-Transitioning
(2023)
60 min | Documentary
Spotlight uncovers the irreparable damage being visited on a generation of confused kids wrongly diagnosed as transgender.
Stars: Michael Usher, Liam Bartlett, Courtney Coulson, Chloe Cole
31.
Pilger (1974– )
Episode:
Thalidomide: The 98 We Forgot
(1974)
25 min | Documentary
Director: Christine Fox | Star: John Pilger
32.
Tonight with Trevor McDonald (1999– )
Episode:
The Butcher Surgeon: A Scandal Uncovered
(2017)
24 min | Documentary
Julie Etchingham presents a special report on Ian Paterson, the surgeon who performed unnecessary operations on multiple women, affecting the lives of over 1,100 of his patients.
Director: David Raddings | Stars: Julie Etchingham, Johanna Thomson, Andy Stockdale, Gordon Wishart