Ludwig Guttmann, a renowned German neurosurgeon who fled Nazi Germany in the early days of WWII, takes a position at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, England in 1944 and begins to transform the lives of his patients, paralyzed soldiers that have been written-off and who are facing death from neglect. A breakthrough comes when Dr. Guttmann introduces sport into their rehabilitation, a breakthrough that leads to the founding of the Paralympic Games.

• DirectorTim Whitby
• Release16 August 2012
• Genre
  Drama / History
• Duration1h 30m
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  7.0
  26 reviews
• Productions

  BBC, Whitby Davison Productions Ltd.