Die Geisel der Menschheit

January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty years earlier he had ruled Chicago's crime underwo...

A propagandistic melodrama recounting the dangers and horrors of venereal disease.

A wife and her husband have both contracted syphilis and don't know how to tell each other.

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film...

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn p...

A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 jungle soldiers.

A tyrannical landowner terrorizes his wife and seduces the daughter of one of his employees.

A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partners. The film is now considered to be a lost film.

A young beauty queen travels to New York to further her modelling career, but contracts syphilis after being tricked into a sexual encounter. She is t...

A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patien...

A doctor who believes that only the immoral catch syphilis reconsiders his stance.

A painter with syphilis infects his brother's wife and the child born of their affair.

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.

Jurgen Vanderspek (a.k.a. James Vanderbacon) is a senior in high school. He is a loudmouthed macho who loves to tell juicy anecdotes about his sexual...