The most frequently challenged (banned) books in the US, that have a screen adaption, 2010-2019

This is a companion piece to The most frequently challenged (banned) books, that have a screen adaption. 1990-2009, and Frequently Challenged (banned) books in Canada that have a Screen Adaption.

Every 10 years The American Library Association releases a top 100 list of books that are most challenged/requested by people and organizations to be banned from libraries and schools.

"A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials. Challenges do not simply involve a person expressing a point of view; rather, they are an attempt to remove material from the curriculum or library, thereby restricting the access of others. As such, they are a threat to freedom of speech and choice." - ALA Website. - 2017 

The full lists are at ALA.org. 

At the time of writing this 40 of the 100 titles have a screen adaption. 

13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher; [First Published in 2007]: 13 Reasons Why (2017-2020)            
Hannah Baker committed suicide before her death she sends 13 tapes of the 13 people/ reasons why and sent it to a classmate to listen and to give a copy of the tape to each person she talks about. The TV series continues the story after the events of the book.

1984 by George Orwell; [First Published in 1949]: 1984 (1956/1984)                                                     In a future the Earth has been split into Empires. In Oceania one of these three Empires, Winston Smith a man that works for the Ministry of Truth rewriting history, and news to fit the government narrative. One day he meets Julia a woman and falls in love an act of rebellion in itself.  This leads him to become an enemy of the State. 

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain; [First published in 1884]: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939/1955/1960), The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993), Huckleberry Finn (1974/1975) 
 The sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain [First Published in 1875].  Huckleberry Finn runs away from home and joins a runaway slave traveling on the Mississippi River having many adventures along the way. 

Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor; [First Published in 1985]: Alice Upside Down (2007) 
The series has 25 books, and 3 prequels Alice McKinley is entering her teenage years and has various misadventures with growing up, dating/relationships, friendships, finding role models and family issues.  

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank; [First Published in 1947] Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (1959); The Diary of Anne Frank (1980); The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988); Anne Frank the Whole Story (2001); The Diary of Anne Frank (2009)                
 The Diary of Anne Frank a young Jewish girl hiding with her family from the Nazi’s during WWII. 

Beloved, by Toni Morrison; [First published in 1987]: Beloved (1998)
Set during and after the American Civil War a runaway slave escapes from Kentucky to the free state of Ohio. After escaping she does the best for her family while dealing with the ghosts of the past.

Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo A. Anaya; [First published in 1972]: Bless Me, Ultima (2013) 
A coming-of-age story about a young Chicano, that is growing up in New Mexico and being mentored by a curandera that he is related to.

(A curandera is a female healer that uses folk medicine and mysticism for healing). 

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; [First Published in 1932] Brave New World (1980/1998) Brave New World Series (2020)
Set in the future a totalitarian utopia exists through genetic engineering, drugs, sex and brain washing. However, one-man longs to be free.

Burned by Ellen Hopkins; [First Published in 2006] Burned (2019)                                                
Pattyn is a 17-year-old girl that is struggling with Mormon teachings and lifestyle. After getting into trouble, she goes to live with her Aunt Jeanette that gives her a new perspective on the world and religion. 

Captain Underpants (series), by Author & Illustrator Dav Pilkey; [First Published in 1997]: Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017), The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants (2018-?) 
A 12-book series about a 2 fourth grade boys who hypnotize their principle into becoming a superhero called Captain Underpants. 

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger; [First Published in 1951]                                                    
After getting expelled from Holden Caulfield spends a few days in New York dealing with depression, looking for love and or sex and reflecting on his view of the world.                         

While there is no adaption to the book by J.D. Salinger however there is a Biopic about the author’s life titled Rebel In The Rye (2017)

A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess;[First published in 1962]: A Clockwork Orange (1971) 
Set in a future England a sociopathic gang leader Alex is caught for attempted robbery and murder. Once in prison Alex is chosen for an experimental behavior-modification treatment that makes him severely ill at the mere thought of violence. After treatment and being released from prison society takes advantage of his conditioned state. 

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker; [First published in 1982]: The Color Purple (1985)                    
Set in Georgia during the 1930’s the story is about a black woman of low social status, suffers abuse from her father and other people in her life over four decades. 

CRANK, by Ellen Hopkins; [First Published in 2004] CRANK: Flirting with the Monster (2015)  Kristina Snow a well-behaved nice girl goes to New Mexico to visit her Father. While on the trip she tries crystal meth aka crank and enjoys it. Kristina soon becomes addicted getting her into trouble and struggles with her addiction. 

Enders Game by Orson Scott Card; [First Published in 1985]: Enders Game (2013) 
After barley defeat the Formics an alien race that want to take over the Earth. The Earth government starts training children to be future military leaders. The protagonist Ender Wiggin is a genius at tactics, games, and strategy quickly rises in the ranks to the point of being the perfect General. 

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer; [First Published in 2005] Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) 
Oskar is a 9-year-old boy that lost his father during the 9/11 attacks on 9/11/2001. One day he finds a key in his father’s belongs and sets out to find the lock it goes to helping the boy learn about himself and to find closure.

Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James; [First Published in 2011]:  Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) 
A literature student meets billionaire Christian Grey a man with specific sexual and romantic tastes. Together they pursue a relationship.

The Glass Castle by Janet Wells; [First Published in 2005]: The Glass Castle (2017)                        
The Glass Castle is a memoir about unconventional parents with issues that create a difficult childhood for the author and her siblings. The siblings eventually leave home and become successful. 

The Giver, by Lois Lowry: [First published in 1993]: The Giver (2014)                                               
Set in the future a boy is given starts training for a special position with his society and government. This helps him to realize that his utopian society is really a highly controlled dystopia.

Goosebumps (series), by R.L. Stine: [First Published in 1992] Goosebumps (TV Series) (1995-1998), Goosebumps (2015), Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018)                                  
Goosebumps is a series of horror novellas that follow child characters, who find themselves dealing with unusual situations; that usually involve the supernatural and or science fiction. There are 62 book are printed under the original umbrella title. With several spin offs. 

Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily von Ziegesar: [First Published in 2002] Gossip Girl (2007-2012) 
A book series that follow the lives, and romances of privileged elite teens from the Upper East Side Manhattan.  

The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood: [First published in 1985]: The Handmaid’s Tale (1990) TV Series (2017-2022) 
Set in a dystopian future a totalitarian government runs a country called Gilead where all fertile women are stripped of rights and must serve as surrogates for infertile wives of the rich and powerful.

 The Hate U Give by Angie Tomas; [First Published in 2017] The Hate U Give (2018)                    
Star Carter is a 16-year-old black girl in a poor part of town. One night Star leaves a party with Khalil a childhood friend. They are pulled over for a traffic violation. The situation becomes tense, and Star witnesses the officer shooting Kahlil. After that night Star testifies in court and becomes activist. She and her family face the challenges of her activism. 

 The Holy Bible by GOD, [First Published Unknown]                                                                        
There are many screen adoptions of the Bible in whole or part for various ages, and dominations. 

The House of Spirits, by Isabel Allende: [First published in1982]: The House of Spirits (1993)   
Three generations of the Trueba family are chronicle through personal and political upheaval in Latin America during the 20^th Century. 

The Hunger Games by, Suzanne Collins; [First Published in 2008] The Hunger Games (2012)
Set in a dystopian future, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her sister’s spot in the annual death game that sets 24 young people (between the ages of 12 -18) against each other for entertainment for the elite and to exert control over the lower castes. 

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou: [First published in 1969]: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979)
The autobiography is about the early years of poet, writer, singer, and activist Maya Angelou 1928 - 2014. 

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini: [First published in 2003]: The Kite Runner (2007)             
Tells the story of a friendship between two boys beginning in the final days of the Afghanistan Monarchy and into the rise of the Taliban Regime. 

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov; [First Published in 1955]: Lolita (1962/1997) 
A man marries his landlady so he can be close to her underage daughter that he secretly desires.

Looking For Alaska by John Green; [First Published in 2005] Looking For Alaska (2019) 
Miles Halter goes to Culver Creek Preparatory High School in Alabama where he forms friendships with three other students. When one of the friends ends up dead the group looks for answers and grow as people. 

Madeline and the Gypsies by Ludwig Bemelmans Madeline; [First Published in 1958]: Madline (1998) Madeline TV Series (1989-2001) 
Madeline and her friend Pepito visit a traveling Gypsie Carnival become lost and temporally join the carnival as performers. The Movie is about Madeline trying to save her beloved school and the TV series covers the series. 

Monster by Walter Dean Myers; [First Published in 1999]: All Rise (2018)                                      
Steve Harmon is a 17-year-old student that has been arrested for a robbery that resulted in a murder in the State New York. The rest of the story is legal battle he must go through to prove his guilt or innocence. 

Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck: [First published in 1937]: Of Mice and Men (1939, 1968, 1981, 1992)  
Two drifters working the fields during The Great Depression George and Lennie work to achieve their dream of having their own land. Until an accidental murder kills the shared dream they have about a better life. 

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky: [First published in 1999]: The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)                                                                                                                                  
A coming-of-age novel set in the early 1990’s about an introvert starting high school, dealing with death, drugs, sex, abortion and family and coming to terms with being molested as a child. 

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi; [First Published in 2000]: Persepolis (2007)                              
Memoir told by Marjane and her childhood during the Islamic Revolution in Iran beginning in the 1970’s. Marjane tells her story about growing up and witnessing the world changing. 

Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark (series) by Alvin Schwartz, Illustrator Stephen Gammell; [First Published in 1981]: Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark (2019) Scary Stories (2018)                       
The books series is a collection of short scary stories based on folklore, urban legends, and history. The 2019 film is set in the 1968 about a group of teens that experience several of their stories because of a ghostly curse. 

The Documentary Scary Stories (2018) is about the books, the author, becoming one of the most banned book series and the art it has inspired.

Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson: [First published in 1999]: Speak (2004) 
At the final party of the summer a high school freshman calls the police ending the party. Unable to say why she called the police due to a trauma that happened during the party she becomes a loner. Through art she is able to overcome what happened and speak up.

The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien; [First published in 1990]: A Soldier’s Sweetheart (1998)  
A set of connected short stories about US soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War. 

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee: [First published in 1960]: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)        Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the depression era Deep South defends a black man accused of raping a white woman in a court of law. While teaching his children about predigest people have.

The Walking Dead (series) by Robert Kirkman & Illustrator Tony Moore; [First Published in 2004]:The Walking Dead (2010-2022); Fear The Walking Dead (2015-2023); The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020) 
Deputy Sheriff Rick Grimes is injured in the line of duty and falls into a coma. When he wakes up, he finds the hospital deserted and the world changed by the walking dead. Rick and other survivors fight to stay alive.

 

Movie Theater as the Setting and or Plot/Theme + Video Rental Stores

Due to the shortness of the cinema background, I combined the video rental store post. 

I really miss Movie theaters so I thought it might be interesting and fun to see a movie theater or drive in on film. 

Big Time Operators Aka The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
Bill Travers inherits a barley operating business a cinema called The Bijou from a distant Uncle. Bill and his wife Jean decide to sell the business only to find it in bad shape. Bill and Jean start the work to make a profit from the inheritance. 

Bikini Drive-In (1995) 
Kim Taylor inherits her grandfather's old drive-in movie theater. Having fond memories of the place she wants to get it up and running again. However, there is $25,000 in taxes due in about a week. So, Kim her friends and the employees of the drive in create and implement a plan that involves wearing little to nothing. 

Cinema Paradiso (1988)                                                                                                                            A successful Film Maker reflects on his childhood, his family and mentor the projectionist at the town's only movie theater in a small Sicilian town.    

Christmas at the Drive-In (2022)
When the local Drive-In is going to be closed and torn down. A property lawyer/professor that wants to save it has to prove the worth and value to the community by Christmas which is in three weeks. As she works to revamp the business, she reconnects with her first love a property developer that wants to tear it down and owns the McCarthy Drive-In. 

Christmas Movie Magic (2021)
Reporter Allie Blackman sent to write about the 65^th anniversary of a Christmas movie and song “Christmas With You” at the filming location, White Falls, New York. While there she finds message to a mysterious woman from the movie star/song writer. She joins with a movie theater owner and film expert Brad Westfield to find the woman and the origin of the song.

Dead In Drive-In (1986)
Set in the future where sickness, economic collapse, food shortages, and 5 Rambo movies have been made. A recently unemployed teen and his girlfriend go to a drive in only to discover it is a trap/concentration camp for the unemployed and other unwanted members of society. Can he escape? 

Demons (1985)                                                                                                                                  Several people are given free tickets to a screening to a new horror film. After the film starts demons start attacking the people trapped in the theater. 

Drive In (1976)
A group of people (mostly teens) in 1976 Texas have adventures at the local drive-in theater one weekend night. 

Drive In Massacre (1977)
The police in a rural California town search for a serial killer that uses a sword to kill at a Drive -In theater. 

Electric Shadows (2004)
Two childhood friends come back together after an accident with one of them reading the others memoir of their childhood and an outdoor theater and the movies that was a big part of their lives.  

Empire of Light (2022)
Set in England in the early 1980's a cinema manager and a new employee bond and heal while dealing with challenges of mental health, everyday life, and wanting to escape. 

It's A Wonderful Knife (2023)
this is a reimagining of It's A Wonderful Life (1947) and It Happened One Christmas (1977) as a teen horror movie. A year after Winnie Carruthers stops a masked killer on Christmas Eve. Winnie is having a bad Christmas with grieving her friends who died, not getting into college, and finding her boyfriend cheating among other things. She wishes things had turned out different, so she finds herself in a world where she had never been born. In this world the killer was never caught and is still murdering the people of the town, and nobody knows who she is. Winnie tries to find people who believe her story as well as a way to get home. 

The Last Horror Film (1982)
A New York City taxi driver dreams of being a famous director and decided to follow/stalk actress Jana Bates to the Cannes Film Festival if France to get her to be in his film. While in France the people close to the actress start getting killed one by one. 

The Last Matinee (2020)
Set in the 1993 people go to the Montevideo Opera Cinema to see a Frankenstein Film. As the show starts a killer starts to take out audience and staff one by one. 

The Last Matinee (2021)
In a small town in an old-fashioned movie theater a killer goes after the patrons and the employees in the theater one by one during the last show of the day. 

The Majestic (2001)                                                                                                                                  Set in 1951 a Hollywood screen writer Peter Appleton has a car accident after a night of drinking and bad news he loses his memory and washes up in a small town where he is mistaken for the lost MIA son of the local movie theater owner Harry Trimble. Peter revives the local treater and brings life back to the town before he regains his memory.  Having regained his memories, he has to face congress and the House on Un-American Activates after being accused of being a communist. 

Matinee (1993)                                                                                                                                        
Set during the Cuban Missile Crisis a showman promotes a science fiction movie in a South Florida. While a boy has a coming-of-age adventure at the theater that the film promotion is taking place. 

Midnight Matinee (1989)                                                                                                                            A small town is restarting a horror movie marathon after a murder at a previous movie marathon. Will tragedy strike again? 

Midnight Movie (2008) 
A special screening of a lost horror film the audience and employees are trapped in the theater as the killer comes off the screen and attacks everybody trapped inside. 

Phantom of the Megaplex (2000)                                                                                                            At a 26 screen megaplex an assistant manager must keep the theater running after the manager disappears, look after his younger siblings and set up for a special premier: while a Phantom sabotaging and haunting the place. 

Popcorn (1991)
 A group of film students put on an all-night horror movie marathon. As marathon progresses a killer kills the students usually with the theme of the movie that is playing. 

Popcorn (2007)                                                                                                                                          Dany falls for a hot girl bus is unable to get her attention. So, he gets a job at her place of work a movie theater.   

Porno (2019)
Set in 1992 a 2-screen movie theater staffed by Christians discover a basement level with a third screen which showed adult content in the past. While exploring they find an old film reel. Curious about it they vote, and a majority of the staff decide to screen the old reel. Doing this releases a succubus trapped within the film. The succubus traps, temps and attacks the people in the theater until they are able to trap or destroy the demon. 

Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)                                                                                                                    Set during the Great Depression a waitress goes to the movies regularly. During her latest visit a charter comes off the screen from the film she is watching.   

Ruby (1977)                                                                                                                                              
16 years after Ruby's boyfriend and father of her child is killed/vows revenge; Ruby runs a Drive In employing the gang members that killed her boyfriend. The gang members/employees are killed in creative in a supernatural drive-in theme.  

Save The Cinema (2022)
Based on the true story of Liz Evans who worked to save The Lyric Cinema a local cinema and theatre in Carmarthen, Wales.  

Splendor (1989)
Splendor is the name of an old movie theater in an Italian town that is on the verge of closing due to debts and low attendance. The current owner and manager Jordan who inherited the business from his father reminisces about his past and the glory days of the theater. 

Special Mention 

Dimension 404: Episode 2: Cinethrax (2017) A film buff and his niece attend a new 3D movie that opens a gate to another dimension. They try and stop what is trying to get thru. 

Video Rental Stores in film 

I miss video rental stores where I live all of them have closed is this is the closest thing to seeing them again. These films take place or have important scenes in video rental stores.

An interesting fact is that the video rental setting is used 6 times during the 80's and 90's While 2000 to 2019 The time of Netflix, Redbox and Streaming the video rental setting is used 9 times not including the South Park special mention.  

Another interesting fact is that Blockbuster is used only twice South Park and Yes Man. The rest are independents or are portrayed as independents. 

Remote Control (1988)
A video store clerks stumbles onto an alien plot to take over earth by brainwashing people with a B grade1950s science fiction movie.

The Fisher King (1991)
After inspiring a listener's mass shooting a shock jock Jack Lucas falls apart until he starts helping Parry a man whose wife was killed in the shooting.

Clerks (1994)
A day in the lives of two clerks Dante (convince store) and Randal (video rental store) as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the roof of the store.

Scream (1996)
After the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a killer, who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.

Superstar (1999)
A girl working for a video rental store works for attaining her dreams of fame and kissing the Big Man on Campus.

Loser (2000)
University freshman, Paul Tannek is branded a loser by his hard partying roommates and set up to be kicked out of his dorm, he gets a place off campus. After saving Dora Diamond from being overdosed at a party; he falls in love with her however she is involved with elitist Professor Edward Alcott.

Sugar and Spice (2001)
When high school cheerleader Diane gets knocked up by her boyfriend. They get married and get low paying jobs at a grocery store bank and a video rental store. Wanting to give the best life for her twins Diane and her squad mates plan to steal needed money. Researching bank robbery from movies and using their cheerleading skills, the girls devise a plan to rob a bank.

Jersey Girl (2004)
After his career is destroyed by an unexpected tragedy and a personal melt down, a single father Ollie Trinke grieves and just getting by. Until meeting a beautiful love interest Maya at a video rental store she works at; he starts to turn his life around.

I Am Legend (2007)
When an unstoppable virus that turns human race into bloodthirsty mutants, civilization's last hope for a cure lies with scientist Robert Neville, the sole survivor in New York City. Based on I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Mathenson[First Published in 1954].

Be Kind Rewind (2008)
A video-store employee accidentally erases every tape on the shelves, in order to stay in business, the employees try and re-create all the films, with their own camera, with a budget of zero.

Good Dick (2008)
An extreme introverted girl that rents soft-core porn from a local video rental store.  While there she meets a video store clerk who vows to win her heart.

Yes Man (2008)
Based on the memoir Yes Man by Danny Wallace [First Published in 2005]. Banker Carl Allen has gotten through a bitter divorce, lives his life going to work and watching rented videos after work. Until he goes to a self-improvement seminar; at the seminar the guru makes Carl say yes to everything that comes his way.

This Means War (2012)
A pair of best friends and CIA agents wage an epic battle against one another when they discover they are dating the same woman.

A Nightmare on Facetime (10/24/2012) Season 16; Episode 12*
The 235th episode of the series overall. Randy Marsh purchases a Blockbuster video store and demands that his reluctant family work in it on Halloween with him. Aspects of which parody the 1980 film The Shining, and an episode of The Simpson's Treehouse of Horror V: Season 6: Episode 109 (1994) Act 1: The Shinning

Beyond the Gates (2016)
After their father's disappearance, two brothers Gordon and John reunite to close down his video store. While doing this they find an old VHS board game and decide to play. On the tape, a ghostly woman offers them a way to rescue their father.

Blockbuster (2022)
A Netflix sitcom about the last Blockbuster store the manager trying to keep it open and the employees that still work there. (Netflix making this seems ironic).  (Update Netflix killed Blockbuster again). 

The Last Video Store (2023)
A woman comes to Blaster Video Store (the last video rental store in Canada) with a cursed VHS tape which results in the people at the store experiencing a strange supernatural experience. 

The Last Video Store (2023)
In a video rental store in Australia two young employees start a romantic relationship until the girls criminal ex shows up to cause trouble. 

* While several TV shows have episodes use a video rental store as a location This is a special inclusion because it covers what things were like with video rental in 2012. 
Blockbuster ceased operation in 2013 with only a few stores left only one left as of today. 

Attending Medical School | Nursing School Films

Medical School | Nursing School

Films about attending Medical School or Nursing College.

There is a combined total 35 with taking 24 including Medical College/Education with 9 under the category of Nurse College/Education. 8 are from and take place in the 21^st Century; the remaining 27 are from or take place in the 20^th century or earlier.

Medical School/Education 

Arrowsmith (1931)
Based on the book Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis [First Published in 1925] The life of Martin Arrowsmith MD. In the book Arrowsmith explores medical education as well as the various avenues of the medicine at the time; the movie cuts it down to just a few plot points.

Bad Medicine (1985)  
Based on the book Calling Dr. Horowitz by Steven Horowitz, MD, and Neil Offen [First Published in 1978] Young Americans that cannot get into a medical college anywhere else go to a rundown Medical College in a fictional third world country. 

Doctor G (2022)
Medical Student Uday Gupta is unable to obtain a place in his chosen specialty in Orthopedics and to be like his personal hero and cousin Dr, Ashok Gupta. Uday is unwilling/unable to leave the city because of family enters the OBGYN program with the plan to later transfer. So, with this plan develops an attitude/last approach that offends his professor and classmates. As he is forced to confront his bias, pride he also learns about his family members and out grows his childish perceptions and works to make up for his past actions as a man and as a physician. 

Doctor In The House (1954) (1969-1975)
Based on Doctor in the House by Richard Gordon [First Published in 1952] Simon Sparrow a freshman medical student falls into a group of Playboys that are having a good time partying, playing sports, and enjoying college life.

Flatliners (1990) 
Five medical students perform dangerous near-death experiments. As they push the limits of the experiments, they begin to experience waking nightmares involving their past sins.  

Flatliners (2017) 
Inspired by the film Flatliners (1990) Five medical students experiment with near death. The first members seem to gain benefits from the process however as the experiments continue guilt and past sins start to haunt members of the group. 

Getting In (1994)
Gabriel Higgs is waitlisted for getting into John Hopkins University with six people ahead of him. So, he decided to bribe the other on the list. However, somebody is killing the wait list is with him being number 6 what kind of danger is Gabriel in? 

Going To Extremes (1992-1993)
Short lived series about American medical students going to the Caribbean for medical training and dealing with different cultural environment. 

Gross Anatomy (1989)
A first-year med student wants to become a doctor. Yet he appears not to care about anything, To the annoyance of his classmates and professors. Will he make it through gross anatomy and his first year or dropout? 

Hard Rock Medical (2013-2018)
Eight students that are Medical Students attending the Boreal Medical School in Canada. These students are participating in the school's rural medicine program.

House of God (1984)
Based on the book House of God by Samuel Shem MD [First Published in 1978] A Semi-autobiographical memoir; about a group of interns entering into the medical field. As they face tragedies and grow as professionals, they become disillusioned with the profession. 

The Interns (1962) 
Based on the novel The Interns by Richard Frede [First Published in 1960] Several Medical students began their internships and face personal and professional challenges. 

The Legendary Doctor Hur Jun (1999) Gu-am Heo Jun (2013)
Based on the life of Heo Jun a man a concubine son of a general that becomes a respected Physician and author of the most important medical text in Joseon Era Korea.  

Not As A Stranger (1955)
Based on the book Not As A Stranger by Morton Thompson [First Published in 1954] A young man that lives for medicine sacrifices almost everything to attend medical college and to have a successful medical career. After becoming a MD must deal with the limitations of medicine as well as frustrations and disillusionment of the medical system along with men and women that work in the medical field. 

Off The Map (2011) 
Three US Doctors completing their residencies go to work at a free medical clinic (200 miles away from any other medical facility) in rural South America to gain experience and learn from the established Doctors that run the clinic. 

Patch Adams (1998) 
Based on the book Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System and Society Through Physician Service Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy by Patch Adams and Maureen Mylander [First Published in 1992]. Patch decides to become a doctor to help people. Not liking the way things have been done he sets out to change the system with using humor and laughter to help the sick. 

The Physician (2013) 
Based on the novel The Physician by Noah Gordon [First Published in 1986] During the 11 Century Rob Cole apprentices to a barber surgeon; When he meets a Jewish physician trained by a Persian Academy. Rob Cole becomes determined to attend the academy. Unable to attend due to being Christian he disguises himself as a Jew and attends the academy.

Re-Animator (1985)
Inspired by the short story Herbert West Re-Animator by H.P Lovecraft [First Published in 1922] A medical student and his friend experiment with a serum that reanimates the dead to less than the desired results. Followed by two sequels Bride of Re-Animator (1990) and Beyond Re-Animator (2003). 

Scream Queens: Season 2 (2015-2016)
Several survivors from season 1 go to work at the C.U.R.E. Institute a hospital and medical college for incurable diseases, where a new costumed serial killer (or killers) known as the Green Meany stalks the halls. Attacking; Murdering the patients, staff, volunteers, visitors, and survivors of the first series. 

Scrubs: Med School (2009-2010)
In the last and final season of Scrubs (2001-2010) Sacred Heart Hospital was torn down and a med school was put in its place. With the series following a group of med students and some of the original cast teaching at the med school. 

Service to Man (2016)
Set in 1967 at Meharry Medical College a Historically Black College University located outside of Nashville, Tennessee. The college has accepted it first white student Eli where he deals with anti-white racism and distrust, along with the challenges of medical school.  As this is happening Eli develops a rivalry and a friendship with legacy student Michael Dubois.

Stitches (1985) 
Three med students pull pranks, throw wild parties, woo the girls and take on the mean Dean in the college movie. When they throw one too many pranks and their leader get kicked out will the guys be able to come up with a plan to save him?  

Summer 2007 (2007) 
After getting in over his head in politics a Medical Student decides to get out of town for a while. He convinces several of his friends/classmates to do their required community service internship at what they believe will be a modern clinic in an upper-class vacation area of India. Instead, they are sent to a poor rural area.

White Coats aka Intern Academy (2004)  
Seven student interns go to learn and work at St Albert’s Teaching Hospital the worst hospital in the Canadian Health System.  

Vital Signs (1990)
Medical students enter their third year and choose and compete for the specialties they are to enter. While dealing with personal and professional challenges. 

Nurse College/Education

4 Girls in White (1939)
Four girls enter a nurse training program for different reasons. The girls learn and grow on the journey to becoming nurses. 

Angles in White AKA Itsumademo Shiroi Hane (2018)
Rumi Kizaki is a young woman that failed to get into Japan's National University. So, she enrolls into a Nursing school as a last choice back up. As Rumi learns, interacts with classmates, and patients she realizes being a Nurse maybe more than a backup plan for her. 

The Lamp Still Burns (1943) 
Based on the book One Pair of Feet by Monica Dickens [First Published in 1942] While WWII is Hilary Clarke decides to become nurse and is put through a demanding training process. As this is happening, she falls in love and must choose between staying a nurse or getting married to the man she loves.

The New Nurses AKA Sygeplejeskolen (2018-2019)
Danish TV series about the first men and their female classmates that are to train and become Nurses at a training hospital in 1950’s Denmark.

Nobody’s Baby (1937)
Failing to get into show business two friends attend Nurse School and get mixed up with a secret pregnancy/baby within a secret marriage. 

The Shift (2013) 
During a 12-night shift in the ED an experienced nurse has to train a new nurse. As the shift passes the two of them disagree about quality of life and quantity of life in regard to the people they are treating.

The Student Nurses (1970)
Four friends and student nurses become sexually liberated, learn about their chosen specialties, and are a part of issues that were relevant/going on at the time.

Tammy and the Doctor (1963) 
This is the third movie in the Tammy Tyree film series. Tammy accompanies a friend to LA where the friend is getting an operation. Not having money or a place to stay Tammy gets a job as a nursing assistant/Nurse training and starts dating a young Doctor, while her friend gets better. 

White Parade (1934) 
Students get through nursing school from first day of college to graduation.

Due to few films and TV shows I have added Nursing assistants as protagonists to add a few more titles. 

Nursing Assistants 

Disorderlies (1987) A Gambler Winslow needs money to pay off gambling debts or pay the price. The easiest way for him to get the money he needs is to inherit it from his dying uncle. To speed up the process he hires the worst orderlies in the US. However, his uncle health and vitality greatly improve under their care. This causes Winslow to go to more drastic plans. 

The Disorderly Orderly (1964) Jerome Littlefield a med student becomes an orderly. As an orderly he causes chaos due to clumsiness and a psychosomatic problem causes him to take on the symptoms that people tell him they suffer from. 

Paper Mask (1990) Based on the book Paper Mask by John Collee [First Published in 1988] Hospital orderly Matthew Harris discovers a young doctor has died so he assumes his identity and gains employment in a Casualty Dept. in another part of the country. He struggles with his new role until an experienced nurse helps him. It unravels when he makes a mistake and kills someone. 

Skelton Key (2005) Caroline Ellis a Hospice Nurse quits her job and goes to work for a New Orleans Plantation helping a take care of her husband that suffered from a stroke. At the plantation she investigates a ghost story and other mysterious happenings around the house. 

The books 

1. Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System and Society Through Physician Service Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy by Patch Adams and Maureen Mylander [First Published in 1992]
2. Flatliners by Leonore Fleischer [First Published in 1990]
3. Paper Mask by John Collee [First Published in 1988]
4. The Physician by Noah Gordon [First Published in 1986]
5. Calling Dr. Horowitz by Steven Horowitz, MD, and Neil Offen [First Published in 1978]
6. House of God by Samuel Shem MD [First Published in 1978]
7. The Interns by Richard Frede [First Published in 1960]
8. Not As A Stranger by Morton Thompson [First Published in 1954]
9. Doctor in the House by Richard Gordon [First Published in 1952]
10. One Pair of Feet by Monica Dickens [First Published in 1942]
11. Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis [First Published in 1925]
12. Herbert West Re-Animator by H.P Lovecraft [First Published in 1922]

A list of films about with Pandemics and or Epidemics

With the Corona Virus: Covid 19 so active in the world these types of films will be popular as they were when SARS was uncontained. I expect that some of these titles will get remade. 


Pandemic = An illness that affects the population at large and worldwide.

Epidemic = affects a people at a certain place and time in high rates but is contained.

Epidemics 

Containment (2016) 
A Remake of the miniseries Cordon (2014). A man-made disease makes its way to the general population in Atlanta, Georgia. Unable to stop it early The US Government quarantines a large section of the city. 

28 Days Later… (2002) 
Animal activists break into a laboratory to free the lab animals. While releasing the test animals they release a Rage Virus upon the world. 28 Days later a man in a coma wakes up to find London seemingly abandoned.  

Cabin Fever (2002) (2016) 
Five college students go to a secluded cabin. While at the cabin a patient zero that has contracted a flesh-eating sickness dies and falls in a water reservoir that supplies the cabin. One by one the students get sick. The 2002 version is followed by 2 sequels. 

The Patriot (1998) 
Inspired by the novel The Last Canadian by William C. Heine [First Published in 1974]. A leader of a militia group is put on trial by the US government. Wanting revenge, he infects the judge presiding over the case with a manmade virus. The virus ends up spreading quickly causing the town to be quarantined. A local immunologist races to find the cure. 

Voyage of Terror (1998)

An Ebola like virus infects the passengers and crew of a cruise ship Orion Star. As Doctors and scientists seek to find a cure while several passengers try and escape by any means necessary.  

Contagious (1997) 

When Shrimp tainted with Cholera is served on a plane headed for L.A. Once in LA it quickly spreads. A Doctor that works for a CDC like organization fights to stop the spread of the disease. 

Outbreak (1995) 
An African monkey is a carrier for a deadly and contagious virus which is captured and smuggled into the US. The virus quickly mutates to airborne and spreads among the population of a small California town. The CDC and United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases work to contain and cure the illness.

Black Death A.K.A Quiet Killer (1992) Based on the book The Black Death by Gwyneth Cravens & John S Marr [First Published in 1977] A young girl contracts the plague from a squirrel while on vacation. After she succumbs to the sickness, the City of New York and Dr. Nora Hart do what they can to keep it from spreading. 

Variola Vera (1982)
Based on the true story of a smallpox outbreak in Yugoslavia in 1972. 

Killer On Board (1977)
A deadly virus is unknowingly brought on board a cruise ship. The virus quickly spreads to the passengers and crew killing those infected and causing others to panic. 

The Cassandra Crossing (1976) 
A plague is discovered on a passenger train traveling through Europe. The train is quickly sealed and quarantined. A Doctor, his writer ex-wife and others on the train try to keep the passengers alive.  

Stigma (1972) 
A Doctor goes to a remote island community and discovers a syphilis outbreak being hidden by the town. 

The Andromeda Strain (1971/2008) 
Based on the novel The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton [First Published in 1969] After a satellite crash lands in Arizona in a nearby town all of the animals and only 2 people die within minutes of coming into contact with a pathogen later called Andromeda. A Group of scientist labor to stop the pathogen.  

A Matter of WHO (1961) 
After a man flying into England presents with smallpox an agent of the World Health Organization is sent to investigate.

They Rode West (1954) 

1st Lt. Allen Steward MD is a newly commissioned officer is sent to his first posting at a western fort near an Indian reservation for a tribe of Kiowa. In his new post he clashes with the fort commander Col. Waters and the Medicine Men with the treatment and prevention of malaria. 

The Killer That Stalked New York (1950) 
Smuggler Sheila Bennet is carrying a fortune in diamonds is also a smallpox carrier and has unknowingly infected other people. A Treasure Agent and a Doctor are searching for her for different reasons.

Panic In The Streets (1950) 
When a body is found on the docks of New Orleans it is revealed that they were suffering from the pneumonic plague. A Doctor, the police with the support of the Mayor track down the people that may have come into contact with the pathogen. 

The Painted Veil (1934) (2006)
Based on the novel The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham [First Published in 1925]. Set in the 1920's Kitty a woman of British high society gets married to a Doctor based out of China. Having married him for the wrong reasons she quickly has an affair. When her husband finds out he gives her a choice of divorce or to go with him to face a cholera epidemic in rural China. Together head to the outbreak where they grow as people and face the realities of marriage. 

Pandemic

Chinese Doctors (2021)
Starting in 2019 the film shows a fictionalized account of what Doctors in Wuhan went through. As well as how China delt with Covid 19 outbreak. 

To The Lake (2019-2022)

A new deadly virus appears in Moscow, Russia the city, then the country and lastly the world shut down. Sergey takes his girlfriend, her son along with his ex-wife and their own son and a neighbor family go to an uninhabited island to escape the virus. 

The Last Ship (2014-2018) 
Inspired by the book The Last Ship by William Brinkley [First Published in 1988]. The Nathan James has been in the Antarctic for several months under commutations black out. When the mission has been completed, they learn that most of the world has been wiped out by a pandemic and that they have the one person most likely to create the cure.

Contagion (2011) 

A woman returns from Hong Kong dies within days from a flu. A Day later her son also dies. Then it quickly spreads around the world. The rest of the film show various stories of people working to stop/cure the illness, taking advantage of the situation and a few just trying to survive as the world slows to a crawl. 

Pandemic (2009) 

After a woman is misdiagnosed, her Doctor realizes that a new and deadly disease is going to become a pandemic. The Doctor and other health officials race to stop it from spreading, find its origin, and cure or vaccine. 

Blindness (2008) 
Based on the novel Blindness by Jose Saramago [First Published in 1995] One day various people of all social and economic classes are struck down with something that causes blindness. The afflicted are quarantined and mostly forgotten.  A Group of survivors fight for safety and freedom. 

Pandemic (2007)

A Bird Flu called riptide virus kills an American surfer on his way home from a vacation in Australia. It spreads quickly among the other passengers, and across the globe. Scientists from the CDC and city officials from Los Angles work on creating a cure and stopping the spread of the virus. 

Plague City: SARS In Toronto (2005) 

Based on the real events when SARS reached Toronto, Canada. The story shows what was happening in the city overall and with the more personal stories focusing on one of the region's biggest hospitals. 

City of Sars (2003) 

This is an anthology that shows different people dealing with the SARS outbreak in China. 

Robin Cook's Invasion (1997)
Based on the novel Invasion by Robin Cook [First Published in 1997] Small black rocks from space infect people with something that mutates them. Scientist’s network and share information to save the world. 

Fatal Contact: Bird Flu In America (1996) 
A Mutated bird flu is spreading around the world. A team of experts search for the carriers and find a cure. 

The Stand (1994) (2020) 
Based on The Stand, by Stephen King [First Published in 1978] A man-made plague gets out of the lab and quickly spreads and kills most of the world’s population. Then the story takes a supernatural turn with most of the remaining population from North America go to Las Vegas, NV or Boulder, CO.

And The Band Played On (1993) 

Based on the book And The Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts [First Published in 1987]. The story of the AIDS Virus, the politics surrounding the Virus and the people involved in stopping it during its early days.   

I Am Legend (1964/2007) The Omega Man (1971) Based on the short story I am Legend by Richard Matheson [First Published in 1954]. Most of humanity has been killed or mutated by a virus the last man that is immune or vaccinated depending on version seeks to find the cure.