The Genius and the Boys
Geniet och pojkarna
Watch The Genius and the Boys Online Free on Watchseries. D Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of Prions - the particles that would emerge as the cause of Mad Cow disease - while working with a cannibal tribe on New Guinea. He was a star of the scientific world. Over his years working amongst the tribes of the South Seas, he adopted 57 kids, bringing them to a new life in Washington DC. His adoptions were hailed as wonderful fatherly beneficence. But, at the height of his career, rumours began to spread he was a paedophile. Gajdusek would argue that if sex with children was okay in their own cultures, he wasn't wrong to join in. How could a great mind like Gajdusek's lose insight so totally, and why would the scientific community to which he was a hero be so quick to leap to his defence and dismiss the allegations? (Storyville)
- Genre: TV Movie, Documentary
- Country: Sweden
- Director: Bosse Lindquist
- Cast: Bosse Lindquist, Michael Alpers, Warwick Anderson, Sena Anua, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Robert Gajdusek, Robert Gallo, Oliver Sacks, Lovisa Mbagintao, Benoît B. Mandelbrot,
Comment
Related Movies
- 2024
Disciples: The Cult of TB Joshua
Disciples: The Cult of TB Joshua02024HD
BBC Africa Eye unravel a shocking journey into a maze of manipulation and terrifying atrocities, perpetrated by one of the most powerful religious...
![Disciples: The Cult of TB Joshua]()
- 1991
Wildflower
Wildflower6.11991HD
One day Sammy and his younger sister Ellie happen upon a cabin where Alice, a young, partially deaf girl with epilepsy is being kept by her abusive...
![Wildflower]()
- 2004
Awful Normal
Awful Normal8.52004HD
Celesta and Karen Davis grew up in a loving family. They shared many wonderful childhood moments and, at the time, thought it all was normal. But...
![Awful Normal]()
- 1996
Never Be A Victim
Never Be A Victim01996HD
POLICE OFFICER JIM BYRNE, Canada's most honoured Safety Education Specialist brings you his famous TEN RULES, with which he has personally tested...
![Never Be A Victim]()
- 1990
Too Young to Die
Too Young to Die5.51990HD
An abused 15 year old is charged with a murder that carries the death penalty in this fact-based story.
![Too Young to Die]()
- 2004
Twist of Faith
Twist of Faith6.92004HD
A man confronts the trauma of past sexual abuse as a boy by a Catholic priest only to find his decision shatters his relationships with his family,...
![Twist of Faith]()
- 2021
Procession
Procession6.72021HD
Six men who were sexually abused by Catholic clergy as boys become a makeshift family and find empowerment by creating films inspired by their trauma.
![Procession]()
- 2023
The Girl in the Cellar: 8 Years Underground
The Girl in the Cellar: 8 Years Underground92023HD
In 1998, Natascha Kampusch was abducted in broad daylight at the age of ten and held hostage in a basement for 3096 days. When she escaped in 2006,...
![The Girl in the Cellar: 8 Years Underground]()
- 1992
Rigoberta Menchú: Broken Silence
Rigoberta Menchú: Broken Silence71992HD
Focuses on 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rigoberta Menchu, as she discusses the lack of human rights for the indigenous people of Guatemala and her...
![Rigoberta Menchú: Broken Silence]()
- 2020
The Lost Forest
The Lost Forest72020HD
How would natural habitats develop without human interference? In this documentary we follow an international team of scientists and explorers on an...
![The Lost Forest]()
- 2015
The Scientist: Are We Missing Something?
The Scientist: Are We Missing Something?82015HD
The story of Nobel prize nominee Dr Mechoulam from his early days as a child of the Holocaust in Bulgaria, through his immigration to Israel, and his...
![The Scientist: Are We Missing Something?]()
- 2001
A Journey Back to Youth
A Journey Back to Youth02001HD
Based around the testimonies of four German women, this documentary details the abuse women suffered during after WWII at the hands of the Soviet...
![A Journey Back to Youth]()
