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WARNING: Films in this collection contain graphic images of surgical procedures that some viewers many find disturbing.  Discretion is advised.
1927 BMA Film: Circulatory Control
1927 BMA Film: Mechanics of Breathing

1927 Loucks and Norling Film: Resuscitation
1930 BMA Film: Caesarean Section at Full Term
1930 BMA Film: Mechanism of the Normal Heart

1930 BMA Film: Radical Amputation of the Left breast 
1933 BMA Film: Aseptic Operating Theatre Technique
1933 BMA Film: Osteoplastic Craniotomy

1933 Eastman Film: First Aid, Life Saving and Resuscitation 
1934 BMA Film: Peroral Endoscopy
1937 BMA Film: Thoracoplasty

1938 Film: Modern Aseptic Operating Technique
1940 Soviet Film Agency: Experiments in the Revival of Organisms
1941 Film: Fracture of the Neck of Femur

1941 Ministry of Information Film: Blood Transfusion
1944 ICI Film: Handling and Care of the Patient 
1945 ICI Film (edited): The Signs and Stages of Anaesthesia 

1945 ICI Film: Respiratory and Cardiac Arrest 
1940s RAF Film: Mae West
1940s Film: H. N. Method of Artificial Respiration

1940s Film: Ventilation
1940s Film: Ethyl Chloride Anaesthesia for Tonsils and Adenoids
1948 BMA Film: How to Mask
1954 Wellcome Foundation Film: Streamline Flow in Veins 
1956 Film: Neuromuscular Block
1957 Wellcome Foundation Film: The Jugular Venous Pulse
1958 Wellcome Foundation Film: Routine use of Ergometrine
1950s School Films Production: The Both Mechanical Respirator
1965 BMA Film: The Development of Endotracheal Anaesthesia
1978 Film: Blood and Respiration - An Historic Documentary
1979 Film: Hospital Dentistry Under General Anesthesia
1983 Royal Navy Film: ABC of CPR
Amateur Transplants - the Anaesthetists Hymn
BBC Documentary: Scream: The History of Anaesthetics
BBC4 Medical Mavericks Series - Anaesthesia Episode
BMJ Video: James Young Simpson - a new world is born
History of Anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital
Hubscapes: The Ether Dome - the advent of anaesthesia
Conscious - Retelling Anaesthetic Awareness Experience
John W. Pender Collection of the Living History of Anesthesiology
Wood Library-Museum You Tube Video Collection
2011 British Heart Foundation Advert for Hands-only CPR
From rough to refined: the rise of surgery.  
2012 film produced by the New England Journal of Medicine to celebrate its 200th anniversary.
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