Film and Medicine

Have you seen a film that really touched you and/or made you think about illness and the medical field in a different way? Please send your recommendations to fellow students and members of the Premedical Society by clicking on the link below.

Recommend films

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Documentaries

All the documentaries below can be accessed directly on Kanopy, a streaming platform free to BMCC/CUNY students. To search for additional movies click on the link below.

Feel free to recommend a documentary via the form above and/or comment on the movies you watched in the comment section.

Kanopy

In their clinical training the students all see and do the same things - just at different times and in Read more
The recent outbreak of Ebola in West Africa was one of the most deadly health epidemics in recent history. Sierra Read more
This award winning film follows a group of medical students and their relationship with the cadavers they dissect. Throughout the Read more

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Art Movies

Feel free to recommend an art movie via the form above and/or comment on the movies you watched in the comment section.

Ramón Sampedro (Javier Bardem) is a Spanish ship mechanic and part-time poet who is left a quadriplegic after a diving Read more
Mr. Lazarescu (Ion Fiscuteanu) is a retired Romanian engineer, spending his time in the company of his cats and booze. Read more
When Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) gets transferred for evaluation from a prison farm to a mental institution, he assumes Read more
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, “Girl, Interrupted” is the searing true story of Susanna Kaysen (Winona Read more
Matthew Modine stars in this adaptation of the classic novel by Daniel Keyes. In the film, Modine plays Charlie Gordon, Read more
The story of a doctor’s extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds languishing in Read more
Mabel Longhetti (Gena Rowlands), desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick (Peter Falk). Increasingly Read more