Movies and TvShows featuring "medical-abuse" theme.

Mommy Dead and Dearest is a true crime documentary that explores the case of Dee Dee Blanchard and her daughter Gypsy Rose, who suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy. The film uncovers a web of lies, deceit, and abuse, ultimately leading to a shocking act of matricide.

When 10-year-old Maya Kowalski is diagnosed with a rare illness, a medical team tries to understand her condition. As they delve deeper, they begin to question Maya's parents and she ends up in state custody. The Kowalski family fights to bring their daughter back home.

When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal involuntary sterilizations in California’s women’s prison system, they take to the courtroom to wage a near-impossible battle against the Department of Corrections. With a growing team of investigators inside prison working with colleagues on the outside, they uncover a series of statewide crimes - from dangerously inadequate health care to sexual assault to coercive sterilizations - primarily targeting women of color. But no one believes them. This shocking legal drama captured over seven years features extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated women, demanding our attention to a shameful and ongoing legacy of eugenics and reproductive injustice in the United States.