CBHD often receives requests from educators and other individuals for popular resources that engage bioethics through various media (fiction, film, and television). In this resource, we offer a recap of materials relevant to public health that have premiered on television. Viewers are cautioned that the shows represent a wide variety of genres and may not be appropriate for all audiences. They are encouraged to read annotations/synopses available through such websites as www.movieweb.com or www.imdb.com. If there is a show you think we missed, email us at info@cbhd.org.

Public Health

• The 100 (2014–2020, TV-14)
  • Set ninety-seven years after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization, when a spaceship housing humanity's lone survivors sends one hundred juvenile delinquents back to Earth, in hopes of possibly re-populating the planet (IMDB description).
  • (Topics: Disaster Ethics, Genetic Engineering, Human Experimentation, Neuroethics, Research Ethics)
• 3% (2016–2020, TV-MA)
  
  • A post-apocalyptic thriller set in near-future Brazil, where a select few are allowed to join a privileged society after undergoing an intense and competitive process (IMDB description).
  • (Topics: Disaster Ethics, Regenerative Medicine, Research Ethics)
• Anon (2018, TV-MA)
  
  • In a world without anonymity or crime, a detective meets a woman who threatens their security (IMDB description).
  • (Topics: Augmented Reality, Cognitive Enhancement, Neuroethics, Privacy, Technology & Society)
• Ascension (2014, TV-MA)
  
  • A young woman's murder causes the subjects of a century-long mission to populate a new world to question the true nature of the project as they approach the point of no return (IMDB description)
  • (Topics: Consent, Eugenics, Population Control, Research Ethics)
• Between (2015–2016, TV-14)
  
  • After a mysterious disease kills every resident over 22 years old, survivors of a town must fend for themselves when the government quarantines them (IMDB description).
  • (Topics: Bioterrorism, Disaster Ethics, Research Ethic)
• Blacklist (2013–present, TV-14)
  
  • A new FBI profiler, Elizabeth Keen, has her entire life uprooted when a mysterious criminal, Raymond Reddington, who has eluded capture for decades, turns himself in and insists on speaking only to her (IMDB description).
  • (Topics: Bioterrorism, Cryogenics, Disaster Ethics, Organ Trafficking, Radical Life Extension, Surrogacy)
• Taken (2017–2018, TV-14)
  
  • As former CIA agent Bryan Mills deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world, he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge (IMDB description).
  • (Topics: Bioterrorism, Organ Trafficking)
• The Hot Zone (2019, TV-14)
  
  • The frightening spread of the EVD (Ebolavirus) (IMDB description).
  • (Topics: Disaster Ethics, Pandemics, Research Ethics)
• The Rain (2018–2020, TV-MA)
  
  • After a brutal virus wipes out most of the population, two young siblings embark on a perilous search for safety (IMDB description).
  • (Topics: Bioterrorism, Disaster Ethics, Genetic Engineering, Pandemics, Research Ethics)

Updated Summer 2019