Penicillin: A Medical Revolution (2018)

In the summer of 1928, the Scottish physician Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by accident, but it would take two more decades and a world war before he and others succeeded in producing the antibiotic in such large quantities as to eradicate the epidemics of the time: typhus, syphilis, gangrene and tuberculosis.

• Release Date: 2018-06-26
• Runtime: 0h 53min
• Director: Wilfried Hauke