Movies and TvShows featuring "patient-rights" theme.

55 Steps is a true story of a psychiatric patient fighting for her rights against a hospital. Colette Hughes, a woman with mental illness, seeks help from a public defender, Eleanor Riese, to file a lawsuit against the psychiatric hospital. As they fight for patient rights, their friendship strengthens and they overcome numerous obstacles together.

When a private investigator falls in love with a woman dealing with leukemia, he gets caught up in a conspiracy involving a diamond necklace and a jewel thief.

An alarmingly disproportionate number of Black women are failed every year by the U.S. maternal health system. Shamony Gibson and Amber Rose Isaac were vibrant, excited mothers-to-be whose deaths due to childbirth complications were preventable. Now, their partners and families are determined to sound a rallying cry around this chilling yet largely ignored crisis.

In 2018 on the steps of The High Court, Vicky Phelan gave a now infamous address where she exposed one of the worst women's health scandals in Irish history, the cervical cancer debacle. Join Vicky on her exclusive and intimate journey as she fights to expose the truth and stay alive.

In a future where MRI technology can read your mind, the trial of the century soon begins when a defendant faces his own memory for a double murder he doesn't remember committing.

On June 21, 1967, at the age of 17, Lucy Winer was committed to the female violent ward of Kings Park State Hospital following a series of failed suicide attempts. Over 30 years later, now a veteran documentary filmmaker, Lucy returns to Kings Park for the first time since her discharge. Her journey back sparks a decade-long effort to face her past and learn the story of the now abandoned institution that once held her captive. Her meetings with other former patients, their families, and the hospital staff reveal the painful legacy of our state hospital system and the crisis left by its demise.