Bethune

Collaborators : Brittain, Donald | Glover, Guy | Kemeny, John | Office national du film du Canada

Bethune, Norman, -- 1890-1939.Physicans -- Canada -- Biography.Developing Countries -- China.Developing Countries -- Health and Illness.Developing Countries -- Portraits.Developing Countries -- War, Conflict and Peace.Health and Medicine -- Developing Countries.Health and Medicine -- Portraits.Health and Medicine -- World War II.History -- Historic People.History -- World History.Afficher 6 supplémentaires

A film biography of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who served with the loyalists during the Spanish Civil War and with the North Chinese Army during the Sino-Japanese War. In Spain he pioneered the world's first mobile blood-transfusion service; in China his work behind battle lines to save the wounded has made him a legendary figure. This hour-long documentary film pieces together his remarkable career.

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