Cancer: the emperor of all maladies (2015)

Original title

Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies

Directed by

Ken Burns

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary film chronicles the history of cancer and its treatments in the United States. It follows scientists and patients through decades of research and medical progress.

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What happens

Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies is a 2015 American documentary film produced and directed by Barak Goodman and executive produced by Ken Burns. The film, in three episodes of two hours each, is based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning 2010 book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee, and describes the history of cancer and cancer treatments, particularly in the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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