1951-01-01
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World War II public education film about sexually transmitted diseases focused on syphilis.
Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s New York City nightclub Plato's Retreat.
In an attempt to understand the complexities of a long-running relationship, YaVaughnie Wilkins journeys back into her past.
A man contracts a sexually transmitted disease, but is reluctant to seek medical help - until a no-nonsense lecture about the risks he is taking forces him to change his mind.
Educational film about the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases.
The experiences of a young girl help to focus attention on some psycho-social aspects of the venereal disease problem. Written and directed by Rolf Forsberg (maker of Parable, Stalked, Ark, One Friday).
Andy lives recklessly. He decides to go straight after meeting, falling in love with and impregnating Maria. Unfortunately, his freewheeling ways have led to him transmitting an STD to her that causes their baby to die. The two then go through therapy to learn more about sex education.
In New York City, a relationship is threatened when a young man discovers he's caught syphilis from a tryst with a waitress named Ellie. This threatens his relationship with a new girl. Film critic Amy Taubin co-stars as the new girl who gets the bad news. The director is apparently the same man who edited Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.
George and Katherine plan to marry but war breaks out. When he returns on two weeks leave, but has his marriage proposal put down by Katherine, George enters a relationship with another woman.
This German educational film about sexually transmitted diseases, through a mixture of medical imagery and love making scenes, makes the case for a timely medical treatment of gonorrhea and syphilis, and underpins this plea primarily with blatant clinical evidence of the syphilitic secondary stage.
A man feels so much guilt over being infected by venereal disease that he conjures up a personal trial over his own behaviour.
A young woman contracts what she believes to be an STD—but it ends up being a far worse disease.
When Kyle returns from his stag-do with a sexually transmitted disease, he's left unable to have sex with his fiancée Lydia in the run-up to their wedding.
In this dramatized warning to young women of the risks of venereal disease, Betty, a shop girl, pays a severe price for just one 'slip'.
Anthony Geary (General Hospital) stars as a compassionate doctor who must treat an STD outbreak at an upscale vacation resort. Judith Light (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) co-stars as an afflicted resident whose heart is broken by this personal tragedy. A despicable real estate tycoon played by Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) is determined to keep the scandal from the press, thus protecting his investment.
Reported cases of sexually transmitted disease took a sharp rise during and after World War II, but as this film testifies, sexual license amongst soldiers on the frontline wasn't the sole cause. Back on the home front, for many women, like Joan from No. 19, loneliness or newfound independence acted as an incentive to extramarital promiscuity.
A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 jungle soldiers.
The dangers of the dread venereal disease syphilis are depicted in this earnest drama from the 1940s. The story centers upon an intrepid health commissioner who is out to get rid of the tawdry hookers responsible for spreading the disease.
Abstract public information film regarding the practice of safe sex.