The Best of Men

• Movies
• 2012-08-16
• EN
• Released
• 2h 30m
• GB
• Drama - History

• 7.0
• 26

Production

BBC, Whitby Davison Productions Ltd.

Storyline

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.