BBC Documentaries

Thalidomide - The Fifty Year Fight

Directed by Stuart Strickson
TV-PG
2014 • E114    May 14, 2014    60m
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Thalidomide was prescribed to women to combat morning sickness, but the drug led to children being born with deformed or missing limbs. More than 50 years on, this documentary hears from British people affected by it, their families and those intimately involved in the campaign to secure compensation from the manufacturer, revealing the long battle through the courts and how society has treated them through the years.

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