The Best of Men
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.
- Genre: Drama, History
- Studio: BBC, Whitby Davison Productions Ltd.
- Keyword: paralympics, rehabilitation, medicine, biography
- Cast: Eddie Marsan, George MacKay, Rob Brydon, Niamh Cusack, Richard McCabe, Nicholas Jones
