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1. Inherit the Wind (1960)
Passed | 128 min | Biography, Drama, History
Based on a real-life case in 1925; two great lawyers argue the case for, and against, a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York
Votes: 32,986
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial
2. And the Band Played On (1993 TV Movie)
PG | 141 min | Drama, History
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic, and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Patrick Bauchau, Nathalie Baye
Votes: 11,000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_the_Band_Played_On
3. Creation (I) (2009)
PG-13 | 108 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Torn between faith and science, and suffering hallucinations, English naturalist Charles Darwin struggles to complete 'On the Origin of Species' and maintain his relationship with his wife.
Director: Jon Amiel | Stars: Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Ian Kelly, Guy Henry
Votes: 15,127 | Gross: $0.34M
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin
4. The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
Passed | 86 min | Biography, Drama, History
The biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise, Donald Woods
Votes: 3,176
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur
5.
Horizon (1964– )
Episode:
The Race for the Double Helix
(1987)
97 min | Documentary
Watson and Crick race to find the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling, Maurice Wilkins, or Rosalind Franklin can find the key to unlocking the secret.
Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Tim Pigott-Smith, Alan Howard, Juliet Stevenson
Votes: 716
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crick
6. Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)
Approved | 103 min | Biography, Drama
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger, Donald Crisp
Votes: 1,837
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ehrlich
7. Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision (2004)
97 min | Documentary, Animation, History
The animated documentary Proteus explores the nineteenth century's engagement with the undersea world through science, technology, painting, poetry and myth. The central figure of the film is biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel, who found in the depths of the sea an ecstatic and visionary fusion of science and art.
Director: David Lebrun | Stars: Marian Seldes, Corey Burton, Richard Dysart, Phil Proctor
Votes: 117 | Gross: $0.00M
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Haeckel
8. Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
PG-13 | 129 min | Biography, Drama
Lorenzo Odone, a Virginia 5-year-old, develops a degenerative nerve disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his parents decide to immerse themselves in research and tackle the problem themselves.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov, Kathleen Wilhoite
Votes: 24,196 | Gross: $7.29M
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_and_Michaela_Odone
9. Gorillas in the Mist (1988)
PG-13 | 129 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, John Omirah Miluwi
Votes: 29,359 | Gross: $24.72M
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dian_Fossey
10. Something the Lord Made (2004 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 110 min | Biography, Drama
A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Cliff McMullen, Yasiin Bey, Luray Cooper, Alan Rickman
Votes: 15,432
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivien_Thomas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Blalock
11. Awakenings (1990)
PG-13 | 121 min | Biography, Drama
The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.
Director: Penny Marshall | Stars: Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson
Votes: 159,515 | Gross: $52.10M
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Sacks
12. Semmelweis (1940)
85 min | Biography, Drama
Supposedly the 1st Hungarian biopic: Semmelweiss disagrees with university colleagues that nothing can be done about women dying of childbirth fever, finds a remedy if doctors disinfect after dissecting corpses, lands up put in an asylum.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Tivadar Uray, Juliska Ligeti, Gyula Gózon, Margit Árpád
Votes: 52
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
13. Sister Kenny (1946)
Approved | 116 min | Biography, Drama
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
Director: Dudley Nichols | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger, Philip Merivale
Votes: 1,270
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Kenny
14. Code of a Killer (2015)
65 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Sir Alec Jeffreys' discovery of DNA fingerprinting and its first use by DCS David Baker in catching a double murderer.
Stars: John Simm, Anna Madeley, David Threlfall, Lorcan Cranitch
Votes: 3,736
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Jeffreys
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Pitchfork
15. Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Biography, Drama
Biography of Ben Carson who grew up to be Dr. Ben Carson, a world famous neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins.
Director: Thomas Carter | Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Kimberly Elise, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Alora Adams
Votes: 15,879
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carson
16. Food, Inc. (2008)
PG | 94 min | Documentary, News
An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.
Director: Robert Kenner | Stars: Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser, Richard Lobb, Vince Edwards
Votes: 52,527 | Gross: $4.42M
17. Super Size Me (2004)
PG-13 | 100 min | Documentary
While examining the influence of the fast food industry, Morgan Spurlock personally explores the consequences on his health of a diet of solely McDonald's food for one month.
Director: Morgan Spurlock | Stars: Morgan Spurlock, Daryl Isaacs, Chemeeka Walker, Dania Abu-Rmaileh
Votes: 113,989 | Gross: $11.53M
18.
Animated Hero Classics (1991–2005)
Episode:
Louis Pasteur
(1995)
30 min | Animation
The time is 1860, and cholera is beginning to spread throughout France's chicken population. Louis Pasteur and his assistant, Emile Roux, collect samples and deduce that disease can be ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Rich | Stars: Victor Humphries, Kevin Farrell, Mimi Carr, Aldo Billingslea
Votes: 15
19. Microbes and Men (1974– )
60 min | Drama
Dramatised documentary series charting the development of vaccines by Pasteur, Koch and others in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Stars: Frank Gillard, Arthur Lowe, James Grout, Patricia Heneghan
Votes: 39
20. The Darwin Adventure (1972)
G | 91 min | Biography, Drama
Victorian naturalist Charles Darwin sails on the HMS Beagle and returns with a shocking theory of evolution.
Director: Jack Couffer | Stars: Nicholas Clay, Susan Macready, Ian Richardson, Christopher Martin
Votes: 46
21.
L'encyclopédie audio-visuelle (1992– )
Episode:
Darwin
(1992)
53 min | Documentary
A revisionist biopic on Charles Darwin, illustrated via 18 tableaux covering details from Darwin's birth, his defining voyage on the HMS Beagle, the publication of his seminal Theory of ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Bert Sevenhuijsen, Jacques Bonnaffé, Barbara M. Messner, Germain Pengel
Votes: 154
22. Contagion (2011)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Thriller
Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow
Votes: 315,861 | Gross: $75.66M
FICTION
23. Bitter Harvest (1981 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
A farmer's herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill, so he bucks the state agricultural establishment as he pursues the politically explosive investigation of how his farm, family, and friends came to be poisoned.
Director: Roger Young | Stars: Ron Howard, Art Carney, Tarah Nutter, David Knell
Votes: 320
ABOUT CATTLE FEED CONTAMINATION
24. The Andromeda Strain (1971)
G | 131 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what killed the citizens of a small town and how the deadly contagion can be stopped.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: James Olson, Arthur Hill, David Wayne, Kate Reid
Votes: 40,720 | Gross: $3.42M
FICTION BUT GREAT
25. An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
PG | 96 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.
Director: Davis Guggenheim | Stars: Al Gore, Billy West, George Bush, George W. Bush
Votes: 85,202 | Gross: $23.81M
GLOBAL WARMING DOCUMENTARY
26. The Voyage of Charles Darwin (1978)
Biography, History
The series encompasses Darwin's university days to the 1859 publication of his book "On the Origin of Species" and his death and is based on Darwin's own letters, diaries, and journals, ... See full summary »
Stars: Malcolm Stoddard, Andrew Burt, Peter Settelen, David Ashton
Votes: 153
27.
The World About Us (1967–1987)
Episode:
The Forgotten Voyage
(1982)
80 min | Documentary
Director: Peter Crawford | Stars: Tim Preece, Tony Steedman, Patrick Allen, Eric Dodson
Votes: 7
28. Alfred Russel Wallace (2003 Video)
50 min | Drama
Director: Richard Elson | Stars: Frank Bye, John Elson, James Eltringham, David Hastings
Votes: 5
29.
Evolution (2002)
Episode:
Darwin's Dangerous Idea
(2002)
Documentary, Drama
Directors: David Espar, Susan K. Lewis, Alastair Reid | Stars: Roger Brierley, Antony Carrick, Jane Cunliffe, Manon Eames
Votes: 42
Darwin's Dangerous Idea
30. Paracelsus (1943)
104 min | Biography, Drama
Paracelsus is the story of the Renaissance era Swiss physician/alchemist/astrologer Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Werner Krauss, Harry Langewisch, Annelies Reinhold, Mathias Wieman
Votes: 241
31. Sauerbruch - Das war mein Leben (1954)
104 min | Biography, Drama
Director: Rolf Hansen | Stars: Ewald Balser, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Maria Wimmer, Lina Carstens
Votes: 130
32. Robert Koch: The Battle Against Death (1939)
113 min | Biography, Drama, History
The young country doctor Dr. Robert Koch is desperate seeking a cure for a tuberculosis epidemic costing many children in his district life.
Director: Hans Steinhoff | Stars: Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss, Viktoria von Ballasko, Raimund Schelcher
Votes: 95
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