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Showing 1 - 9 of 9 titles with a criteria of Subject is Big Pharma vs Generics


Branding Illness

A documentary expose of how pharmaceutical companies create demand for the drugs at their disposal, and buy the science they need to prove their effectiveness.

Icarus Films | 2011 | 52 minutes

The Cost of Living

AIDS drugs unaffordable in developing countries.

Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 24 minutes

Health for Sale

Access to essential pharmaceutical drugs in developing countries is critical. Why is it that 15 million people die from easily curable diseases in the Southern hemisphere every year? The film links together the First and Third World in a long trip inside the Pharma maze.

First Hand Films | 2007 | 52 minutes

It's My Life

Follows HIV-positive South African activist Zackie Achmat, who refuses to take life-saving anti-retroviral drugs until they are made available by the government.

Icarus Films | 2001 | 72 minutes

Kill Or Cure?

India's $4.5 billion dollar pharmaceutical industry that serves the world's poor is at a crossroads.

Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 26 minutes

Money and Medicine (New Edition)

An investigation of the dangers the nation faces from runaway health care spending as well as the dangers patients face from over-diagnosis and over-treatment.

Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 84 minutes

Patents and Patients

India battles HIV/AIDS using generic drugs.

Bullfrog Films | 2003 | 23 minutes

Paying the Price

Pharmaceutical companies block generic drugs, threatening the lives of millions of Africans with AIDS.

Bullfrog Films | 2002 | 27 minutes

Selling Sickness

Explores the unhealthy relationships between society, medical science and the pharmaceutical industry as it promotes not just drugs but also the latest diseases that go with them.

Icarus Films | 2004 | 52 minutes